Weekend Roundup

• Do you know about Founders Online, maintained by the National Archives?  H/t: Matt Steilen.
  

• Here's a useful thread on dissertation prizes, including the Cromwell Prize in legal history.

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Joseph Fishkin (UCLA Law) and William E. Forbath (University of Texas School of Law, "The Supreme Court wasn’t always the final arbiter of the Constitution"; Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (University of Iowa), "The policing of pregnancy and homeland security are intimately enmeshed."

• Congratulations to legal historian Elizabeth Katz (Washington University in St. Louis School of Law), who has been selected as the 2021-2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Gender & Law for her paper Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office, 33 Yale J. Law & Feminism 110 (2022). 
  

• At the Washington University St. Louis, Rebecca Wanzo, professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Arts & Sciences, will be teaching Politics of Reproduction, an interdisciplinary course that will "explore topics including reproductive health, law, disability, economics, film, politics, reproductive justice and religion through a series of in-person events and public webinars."
  

• We recently noted the Notice & Comment symposium on Bill Novak's New Democracy. Since that posting, additional commentaries have gone up, by Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt University Law School), Christoper J. Walker (University of Michigan School of Law), Orly Lobel (University of San Diego), and Jane Manners (Temple University Beasley School of Law). Stay tuned for another mini-symposium on the book soon, in the Law & History Review's online companion (The Docket).
  

• “18 Civil War historians and professors of legal history disputed [Students for Fair Admissions’] “erroneous” claim that the 14th Amendment prohibits any consideration of race in admissions policies” in their amicus brief in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard University (Harvard Gazette).
  

• From History News Network: Charles J. Holden (St. Mary's College (MD)), "Weaponizing Bad-Faith History is a Conservative Tradition from Jim Crow to Alito."  From Legal Cheek: The greatest lawyers from medieval and ancient history.  From Bloomberg Law:  The Rise and Fall of Dewey & LeBoeuf (Has it really been ten years?).  From the Philadelphia Inquirer: Abortion and the legal history. From The Conversation: Hidden women of history: Kudnarto, the Kaurna woman who made South Australian legal history.
  

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