Weekend Roundup

• Over at HNN, Bruce W. Dearstyne discuss his forthcoming book The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era (SUNY Press).  He writes that it demonstrates that “New York’s high court was more progressive than many of its state counterparts or the U.S. Supreme Court at that time.”
  

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  Wyzanski, 1937 (LC)
  

  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's library is up for auction (The Guardian).  That reminds us to say that Georgetown Law has Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.'s books, with much often fascinating marginalia.
  

• Frank G. Colella reviews The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation 1760-1840, by Akhil Reed Amir, in the New York Law Journal.
  

• In The Times of India, January 20, 2022, Jehosh Paul, an LL.M in Law and Development candidate at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, has published a brief response to what we take to be Elizabeth Kolsky’s Codification and the Rule of Colonial Difference: Criminal Procedure in British India, Law and History Review 23 (Fall 2005): 631-683.
  

• New online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Bengal Regulation 10 of 1804 and Martial Law in British Colonial India, by Troy Downs.
  

• ICYMI: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw on Martin Luther King as CRT theorist avant la lettre (LA Times).  A report on the exhibition of the Historical Society of the New York Courts on the Lemmon Slave Case (Lohud).  The Strange History of Kansas's liquor laws (Flatland).
  

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