Weekend Roundup

• The schedule for the Helsinki Legal History Series in Spring 2024 has been announced and may be downloaded here.

• "A Century’s Journey: Women at the University of Connecticut School of Law,” the fourth in the law school’s series of short histories, explores that path and touches on the inspiring stories of many UConn Law alumnae. Anne M. Hamilton, a 1973 graduate of UConn Law who became a journalist with The Hartford Courant, researched and wrote the book, which was published this month." (UConn Today).
  

• The Great Experiment: Democracy from the Founding to the Future, which was the 2023 George Washington Symposium at Mount Vernon, is now up on YouTube.  Panels include The Great Experiment: Democracy from the Founding to the Present with Historians H. W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Joanne Freeman, and Edna Greene Medford, in conversation moderated by Brian Lamb; The Role of the Military in a Democracy, with Generals Joseph F. Dunford, John Kelly, and Jim Mattis, in conversation moderated by Rick Atkinson; A More Perfect Union:  The Constitution: Principles and Ideas, with Mary Sarah Bilder, Michael J. Klarman, and Jeffrey Rosen, in conversation moderated by Douglas Bradburn; and The Art of Interpretation, with Judge David S. Tatel and Neal Katyal, in conversation moderated by Jeffrey Rosen.
  

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  Peter Radan, Honorary Professor of Law at Macquarie University is interviewed on his new book, Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America (University Press of Kansas, 2023) over on Current.
  

• "The Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications for a full-time Instructional Professor who will teach in the program in Law, Letters, and Society. The appointment is renewable, and the initial three-year term begins September 1, 2024. Appointment at the rank of Assistant, Associate, and full Instructional Professor will be considered based on the candidate’s experience." H/t: H-Net.

• On October 19, Wayne Law celebrated the life of Professor Emeritus Edward J. Littlejohn, the coauthor, with Peter Hammer, of No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.
  

• ICYMI: “The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (JRF) was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the Virginia Law Foundation to expand educational programming on the Rule of Law at Jamestown.  'Legacies of 1619: Law and Race at Jamestown' will explore the transformative First Assembly and the codification of race-based slavery that took place within the walls of Jamestown’s government buildings, according to JRF” (WYDaily).
  

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