Saturday, July 4, 2020

Weekend Roundup

  • Not only has Elizabeth Papp Kamali, “a scholar specializing in medieval legal history,” been tenured and promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School, she’s been deputy deaned! (Harvard Law Today).
  • "Erasing History or Making History? Race, Racism, and the American Memorial Landscape," an American Historical Association Webinar, with David W. Blight and Annette Gordon-Reed, moderated by AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman.  (Facebook)
  • ICYMI: Aderson Bellegarde François (Georgetown Law), on Robert Smalls and Woodrow Wilson (New Republic).  The renaming of US Coast Guard Cutter Taney (Fox Baltimore).  A nicely illustrated history of the ballot (Quartz).  Jack Rakove (Stanford University) on what TJ meant by "all men are created equal" (Stanford News)
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.