Weekend Roundup

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  Edward Garrison Draper (Dartmouth College)
  

  “The Supreme Court of Maryland will hold a Special Session on October 26, 2023 for the posthumous bar admission of Edward Garrison Draper, the earliest known individual found fully qualified to practice law in Maryland, but who was denied the privilege of doing so based on his race.”  The Court is acting when, at its invitation, “Hon. John G. Browning, retired Justice of Texas’ Fifth Court of Appeals, Maryland attorney Domonique A. Flowers, and University of Baltimore School of Law Professor José F. Anderson filed a petition for Mr. Draper’s posthumous admission.”  Judge Browning had previously published “To Fight the Battle, First You Need Warriors: Edward Garrison Draper, Everett Waring, and the Quest for Maryland's First Black Lawyer” in the University of Baltimore Law Forum.  More here and in Bloomberg Law. 
  

• Martin J. Siegel, formerly a law clerk to Irving Robert Kaufman, will speak on his book, Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs at the University of Akron’s Center for Constitutional Law, directed by Tracy Thomas, on September 12 at noon in Room 180 at the Center.  Registration is not  required and the lecture is free and open to the public.  (Akron Legal News)
  

• On Thursday, September 14th, 2023, at 3 p.m. EDT, the Law Library of Congress will host its Constitution Day event, a discussion by University at Buffalo School of Law Professor Samantha Barbas of her book Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan.  Register here.

• "In the latest edition of the [University of Pennsylvania’s] 60-Second Lectures series, Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, discusses whether the U.S. Constitution is too old." Monday, September 18, 2023, 11:50 a.m., Benjamin Franklin Statue.
  

• Jack Goldsmith, HLS, interviews Samuel Moyn, YLS, on Moyn's Liberalism against Itself (Lawfare).
  

• On Wednesday, September 13, at 2 pm ET, at the FDR Library and Museum, Education Specialist Jeffrey Urbin will lecture on The Power of Employment: Jobs in the Roosevelt Administration.
  

• Five Ohio universities will receive “state funding for the creation of a civics center specifically focused on American constitutional history” (Miami Student).
  

•  The Law & Society Association has issued its Call for Submissions for its 2024 Annual Meeting to be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, June 6-9.  The theme is "Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society."  The deadline for submissions is October 24, 2023.

• The July/August 2023 issue of the Archival Outlook (published by the Society of American Archivists) includes "three cases studies on Japanese American incarceree records from World War II."
  

• ICYMI: Alabama Cherishes Its History of Defying the Federal Courts (NYT).  US has a long history of state lawmakers silencing elected Black officials (Times-Union). 
  

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