Saturday, July 3, 2021

Weekend Roundup

  • Thursday, July 8 at 4:00 pm ET, in the Washington History Seminar, Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner on Justice Deferred: Race & The Supreme Court, with comments from Barbara Y. Phillips, University of Mississippi School of Law, and Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame.  More.  And here is the Princeton Alumni Weekly's notice of the book.
  • There is much of interest to legal historians in the June 2021 issue of the Journal of American History, but note especially “The Roots of Redlining: Academic, Governmental, and Professional Networks in the Making of the New Deal Lending Regime,” by LaDale C. Winling and Todd M. Michney.  And Dylan C. Penningroth’s Everyday Use: A History of Civil Rights in Black Churches in the March 2021 issue of the JAH is available open access.
  • At Harvard Law Today: summer reading for your list from legal historians Elizabeth Papp Kamali and Ken Mack.
  • Congratulations to Thomas J. Davis, professor emeritus of history at Arizona State University, upon his receipt of Founder's Community Partner Award of Arizona Humanities, the Arizona affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (ASU News).
  • The International Society for Intellectual History has announced New Work in Intellectual History, a series in which “scholars working in intellectual history [can] discuss and develop proposals for new projects and funding applications.”

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