Weekend Roundup

• The Legal History Society of Nigeria has held its first  conference, “Does Legal History Matter?”  More.  

• The Centre for Law and History, University of Bristol Law School, announces its inaugural seminar, The Presence of the Past: Law v. History.

• Erika Rackley, University of Kent, and Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading on women’s legal history.

• William Herbert Johnson, the first African American graduate of Syracuse Law, to be posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar.  More.

• "A new project is digitizing [US Supreme Court] justices’ behind-the-scenes scribbles, allowing the public a view as the nation’s most powerful jurists decided landmarks of American law" (WSJ).

• The Akron Beacon Journal revisits the debate from 1946 between Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Morris Ernst on the question “Is the American Press Really Free?”

• Habermas at 90, a conference at Boston College without Habermas (but with Frank Michelman), on Monday, October 21.

• ICYMI: Sarah A. Seo, University of Iowa Law School, on What Cars Can Teach Us About New Policing Technologies (NYR Daily edition of the New York Review of Books).  Sean Wilentz, in Rolling Stone (via HNN) on Why We Must Impeach.  James M. Banner, Jr., on 230 years of reining in presidential misconduct, in the Los Angeles Times.  HNN History Briefing: historians on pregnancy discrimination. 

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