Saturday, January 8, 2022

Weekend Roundup

  • The latest newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Watergate.
  • Matthew Waxman, Columbia Law School, on "Remembering the Selective Draft Law Cases" (Lawfare). 
  • The Federal Judicial Center's History Office recaps its work in 2021 in this thread.
  • The Northwestern University professors Michael Allen, Kevin Boyle, Kate Masur, and Alvin B. Tillery Jr. on January 6.
  • "Twelve Tables Press announces ... its newest publication, American Lawyer: Twelve Attorneys Who Have Transformed the United States, written by attorney and Arizona State University Professor Gary L. Stuart."  More.
  • Which reminds us: Chief Justice Roberts's recent invocation of William Howard Taft and federal judicial administration has elicited comment by Steven Lubet, Northwestern Law, on NBCNews and Matt Ford in the New Republic.
  • ICYMI:  A pardon for Homer Plessy (MSNBC; Time). “A tentative agreement to transfer ownership of [Richmond's] now mostly removed Confederate monuments to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia” (Virginia Lawyers Weekly).  "90 years on: Remembering the Scottsboro Boys" (Alabama Political Reporter).

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