Weekend Roundup

• Bernie Meyler, Stanford Law School, on presidential pardons, with Pamela Karlan and Richard Thompson Ford on the Stanford Legal podcast.  
  

• Over at JOTWELL: Richard Murphy (Texas Tech University) has posted an admiring review of Ashraf Ahmed, Lev Menand, & Noah A. Rosenblum, The Making of Presidential Administration, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 2131 (2024).

• Amanda Tyler, Berkeley Law, will discuss Mitsuye Endo before the Supreme Court Historical Society via Zoom on January 23, 2025, 12:00 pm (EDT).  Register here.
  

• "Johns Hopkins University’s recently launched School of Government and Policy seeks to recruit members of its founding faculty in multiple disciplines and fields of study, including (but not limited to) political science, economics, law, sociology, and history" (H-Law).

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  The Balkinization blog is running a symposium on Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Here's a link to a recent post, by Rebecca Zeitlow (University of Toledo). Other contributors include Evan Bernick (Northern Illinois), Alexandra Filindra (Illinois-Chicago), Jim Fleming (B.U.), Damon Linker (Penn), Linda McClain (B.U.), Carol Nackenoff (Swarthmore), Corey Robin (Brooklyn College), and Chloe Thurston (Northwestern). 
  

• Over at the LPEBlog: Henry Tonks (PhD candidate, Boston University) on Mehrsa Baradaran's Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America.

• An interview of John Bardes, Louisiana State University, about his book, The Carceral City:Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 (WWNO). 
  

• Much of the discussion of Nicholas Bagley's forthcoming book on the administrative state was historical when he presented to Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies.  Amy Kapczynski, Dave Schleicher, and Stephen Skowronek provided comments.
  

• Otto Vervaart’s notice of the new portal Goetgevonden for the resolutions of the Staten-Generaal of the Dutch Republic between 1576 and 1786 launched by the Huygens Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
  

• Allison S. Finkelstein on Finding Fulfillment as a Federal Historian: From PhD to Arlington National Cemetery (AHA Perspectives). 
  

• Lawbook Exchange's December 2024 catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History.
  

• ICYMI: Andrew Jackson and prorouging Congress (WaPo).  Korematsu v. United States remembered (Smithsonian; The Nation).   Audrey Pope's Feminist History and Tradition for SisterSong v. State of Georgia (HLRblog)
  

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