Weekend Roundup

• Over at the New Books Network, legal historians are in the spotlight: you'll find conversations with former guest bloggers Sarah Seo (Iowa Law) and Sam Erman (USC) on their recent books Policing the Open Road and Almost Citizens, respectively; also conversations with University of Virginia law professor Jessica Lowe, on her new book Murder in the Shenandoah, and her UVA colleague Cynthia Nicoletti, on her 2017 book Secession on Trial.

• Speaking of UVA, should the University rename the Alderman library? A Law Library summer intern makes the case.

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard Kennedy School) on "why police accountability remains out of reach"; David Pettinicchio (University of Toronto) on "why disabled Americans remain second-class citizens."

• Former US Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.'s Jackson Lecture at Chautauqua Institution and an interview by the Robert H. Jackson Center are here and here.

• The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit's series based on its oral history collection continues with posts on Samuel Dash, Bernard Nordlinger, and Judge Reggie Walton.

• ICYMI: Judge Glock's Unpacking the Supreme Court: Judicial Retirement, Judicial Independence and the Road to the 1937 Court Battle, in the Journal of American History (June 2019).  Over at Lawfare: Arshan Barzani’s review of William A. Schabas’s The Trial of the Kaiser (Oxford University Press, 2018).  At Balkinization, Marty Ledereman's post on the history of congressional investigations of presidential activity.  At HNN, Ronald L. Feinman post on "The Long History of Unjust and Lawless Attorneys General."

• It looks like this job posting at Whitman College, for an Assistant Professor of Politics, could be a good fit for a legal historian.

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