Saturday, March 19, 2022

Weekend Roundup

  • "Rules and Exceptions: Casuistry, Equity, and Prerogative," the 2021-22 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence delivered by Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, is now available on Queen Mary University of London’s YouTube channel
  • On March 31, the American Foundings series at the Catholic University of America continues with How Should We Remember? History, Meaning, and Community.  The panelists are Jack Rakove, Coe Professor of History and American Studies Emeritus, Stanford University; Jamelle Bouie, Opinion Columnist, New York Times, and Kate Masur, Professor of History, Northwestern UniversitySamuel Fisher, Assistant Professor of History, Catholic University of America, moderates.
  • On March 30, The National Museum of American History will posthumously present its Great Americans Medal to Ruth Bader Ginsburg “for her groundbreaking judicial work and commitment to gender equality and human rights accepted by her daughter and son  Professor Jane C. Ginsburg and James Ginsburg followed by a donation of significant artifacts representing Justice Ginsburg's Supreme Court career.”  More.
  • Also via National Archives Museum Online: Laura F. Edwards in conversation with Adam Rothman on her book, Only the Clothes on Her Back. More.
  • "The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism," the 2022 Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford, by Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School, are available here.
  • In “The Economic Constitution,” Mark A. Graber reviews The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing The Economic Foundations of American Democracy, by Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath (Democracy). 
  • Update: Legal history figures among the twenty-nine finalists for the ABA’s 2022 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts (ABA Journal).

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