Weekend Roundup

• In the New York Times: Justin Driver (Yale Law School) reviews Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968, by Thomas E. Ricks. "The book could prove highly influential, inspiring scholars to use the lens of military history to re-examine the victories and defeats of other consequential social movements."

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Franco Paz (Harvard University), "Who should own historical images of enslaved people?" (discussing the Lanier case); Nicolas Foreman (Oregon State University in Corvallis), "The case of Aaron Burr suggests Donald Trump won’t face consequences"; Adam Jortner (Auburn University), "The Supreme Court’s biggest case this term threatens American democracy"; Eddie R. Cole (University of California, Los Angeles), "Limiting academics’ freedom to tell the truth about racism is not new."

• Have you registered yet for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History (Nov. 10-12 in Chicago)? Follow the link to do so.

• We missed this 2021 book, written for young adult readers, on the Vincent Chin trial and its importance for modern U.S. history: Paula Yoo, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement. This history was important to my path toward becoming a historian and I'm glad to know of this book! [KMT]
  

• The Journal of American History has just published a special issue (109:2) on immigration law and policy.  
  

• Via Twitter, we discovered that Elizabeth Dale has a website for "writings and related projects." Check out her post spotlighting a wrongful conviction from 1929. 
  

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  Buffalo Law's interviewed John Henry Schlegel about his new book, While Waiting for Rain: Community Economy and Law in a Time of Change.
  

• Mary Ziegler (UC Davis) spoke at Stockton University’s annual Constitution Day event “on a journey of the anti-abortion movement from the 19th century to this summer’s Supreme Court ruling overturning the Constitutional right to an abortion.”
  

• ICYMI: Justice Alito on originalism and Catholicism at Catholic University (Aleteia).  A notice of a play about “Joseph Knight – a slave who made legal history in 1778, when he persuaded a court that he should be free to leave the employment of the man who had bought him in Jamaica” (The Scotsman).  The heirs of Serranus Clinton Hastings are suing (Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times). The Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina "is partnering with the National Park Service to expand its work in civil rights education and scholarly research" (Greenville Journal).  A brief notice of Richard S. Kay and Joel Colon-Rios’s Adjudicating Revolution: Courts and Constitutional Change (UConn Today).
  

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