Weekend Roundup

• From Environment, Law, and History: the final installment of David Schorr's series on "Nature versus the Common Law."
  

• The Law and Political Economy blog is running a series on the "LPE of Rural America." The post by Emily Prifogle (University of Michigan) and Jessica Shoemaker (University of Nebraska) may be of particular interest: "Rural and Racialized: How Property Law Perpetuates Racial Disparities."
  

• Via History News Network: Erik Baker on "The History and Politics of the Right to Grieve."
  

• Writing for Slate, Mary Ziegler (UC Davis) explains "Why the Effort to Make the Texas Abortion Bans More Humane Is Doomed."

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Michelle Bezark (Start Early/Northwestern University), "Addressing the child care crisis will take more than the CHIPS Act"; Michael Stewart Foley, "Farmers are mobilizing for action. It’s not the first time"; and more.
  

• Now online: The Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies at Georgetown University. “The Center supports rigorous new scholarship and innovation in disseminating knowledge about the history of enslavement and its past and current legacies.  The history of Georgetown, the Jesuits, and enslavement is one area of focus, as well as the history of slavery and its legacies in the Washington, D.C. area, and in Catholic America.”
  

• At Stanford Law, on May 5, Felicia Kornbluh will “offer an overview of  the main arguments of her recent book, A Woman’s Life is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (Grove, 2023)," in a session entitled Win a War on Women: My Mother, Her Neighbor, and the Fate of Reproductive Rights and Justice.  Estelle Freedman, Stanford University, will chair.  The event is part of the conference Legal Histories of the Body and the State: Dobbs and the Legacies of Regulating Gender & Sex.

• ICYMI: Illinois law, 200 years ago: Inside the quest to digitize state's legal history (Pantagraph.

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