Weekend Roundup

• David Sugarman, professor emeritus at the law school at Lancaster University, has posted a truly lovely appreciation of the law W. Wesley Pue (1954-2019) that appeared in the Newsletter of the Research Committee of the Sociology of Law.

• Professor Sugarman’s assessment of the work of the late Christopher W. Brooks, entitled "Law, Law-Consciousness and Lawyers as Constitutive of Early Modern England: Christopher W. Brooks’s Singular Journey," published in Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern English Society. Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Brooks, ed. Michael Lobban, Joanne Begiato, Adrian Green (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019),  32-57, is not available online, but the abstract is here.

• Out online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Law of Nations Theory and the Native Sovereignty Debates in Colonial India, by Zak Leonard, and Of “Masculine Tyranny” and the “Women's Jury”: The Gender Politics of Jury Service in Third Republic France, by Sara L. Kimble. 

• Joanna Grisinger (Northwestern), Kimberly Welch (Vanderbilt), Logan Sawyer (Georgia), and Kathryn Schumaker (Oklahoma), the co-organizers of the Law and History Collaborative Research Network of the Law and Society Association, have posted a call for legal history panels for LSA’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, May 28-31, 2020.  They also seek volunteers to join their ranks as co-organizers.

• We can't possibly keep up with historically informed, impeachment-related posts, but here's a few: U.S. Whistleblowers First Got Government Protection in 1777 (History).  HNN rounded up hot takes from seven historians.  A brief history of presidential impeachment (BBC History Extra).

• In other news: A descendant of a Virginia slaveholders sues a professor et al. for saying as much, apparently on the theory that in noting this and his opposition to the removal of Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee, the defendants claimed he was “a racist and an opponent of people of color” (Roanoke Times). Meanwhile, at Chapel Hill, UNC professors bring the history of Jim Crow to the present.

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will present Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment, a conversation and book signing with Ronald K. L. Collins, coauthor of We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free: Stories of Free Expression in America at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, 2019.

• Over at Nursing Clio: "'Immoderate Menses' or Abortion? Bodily Knowledge and Illicit Intimacy in an 1851 Divorce trial" by Sara Lampert (University of South Dakota)

• CNN's "Black in America" series recently featured Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins), author of Birthright Citizens. Video here.

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: David Farber (University of Kansas) on "how drug-related violence complicates criminal justice reform." And more.

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