Weekend Roundup

• Our friends at the Federal Judicial Center have posted the latest in the Center’s series of teaching materials on Famous Federal Trials.  It’s U.S. v. New York Times, that is, The Pentagon Papers Case, in which "the publication of secret government documents about the Vietnam War leads to a federal court conflict pitting national security against freedom of the press."

• Recently posted over at Law and Political Economy (LPE) blog is the symposium Piercing the Monetary Veil.  Contributors include Christine Desan and Roy Kreitner.

• Boy, we're sorry we couldn't attend this one: Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law, on Private Practices, Public Projects: Reflections on Connections between Work for Clients and Public Activities in the History of the Legal Profession last Thursday at Northwestern University.  H/t: Christopher Schmidt.

• Be sure to check out the redesigned website of the Historical Society for the District of Columbia Circuit.

• Mark W. Gifford, Bar Counsel for the Wyoming State Bar, has published Regulation of the Practice of Law in Wyoming: A 150-Year Walk Through the History Books in the Wyoming Law Review 19 (2019): 1-43.

• The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs announced the publication of a symposium on its 50th anniversary in the Howard Law Journal. 

• An updated webpage helps catch us up on legal history at Edinburgh Law School. 

• Thomas C. Britton will discuss the history and development of the SIU School of Law at noon, May 21, in the Hiram H. Lesar Law Building Courtroom on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus.  He will base his talk on a chapter in his recently published Southern Illinois University at 150: Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges.

• "The 2020 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History will be held in conjunction with the BHC annual meeting . . . in Charlotte Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12. Typically limited to ten students, the colloquium is open to early-stage doctoral candidates pursuing dissertation research within the broad field of business history, from any relevant discipline.  Applications are due by 15 November 2019 via email to BHC@Hagley.org."  More on this prestigious competition of the Business History Conference is here. 

• My erstwhile and present Georgetown Law colleagues Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, and Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center, have posted On Being Old Codgers: A Conversation about a Half Century in Legal Education, a “conversation, conducted over three evenings,” capturing “some of our thoughts about the last half century of legal education as both of us near retirement.”  DRE  

• We didn’t realize that Attorney General William Barr contributed an oral history to the Miller Center for Public Affairs series on the George W. Bush presidency.  Thanks, WaPo!

• In WaPo's "Made by History" series: Victoria Saker Woeste on the dark history of the raisin mafia.  Sarah A. Seo on traffic stops.

• ICYMI: Mary Ziegler on recent developments in the campaign to overturn Roe on NPR (et al.).  The History Channel’s notice of Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy.  Also, the History Channel on the first Social Security check.  More on legal historians as partners: some, it seems, make dreams come true.

• You can register now here for the upcoming workshop on Law, Difference, and Healthcare at Princeton's Davis Center. It is organized by George Aumoithe and runs June 6-7, 2019.

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.