Saturday, January 11, 2025

Weekend Roundup

  • Lawbook Exchange's January 2025 catalogue of Scholarly Law & Legal History books, including the one pictured below right. 
  • Two book events will be live at and streamed from the FDR Library: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal with David Pietrusza on January 15, 2025, at  2pm ET, and Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany with Rebecca Brenner Graham on January 27, 2025, at 2pm ET.   
  • CFP: "The Yale Whitney Humanities Center Working Group 'Cultural Foundations of Law and Public Administration' plans on publishing an edited volume on Cultures of Good Legislation/Good Administration that will address different cultural contexts (West/Global South/Asia). A hybrid symposium at Yale is also intended to foster the dialogue between the contributors."  H-Law.
  • ICYMI, American Expansionist Edition: Why Thomas Jefferson Faced Opposition to the Louisiana Purchase (History Channel).  How the U.S. could in fact make Canada an American territory (The Conversation).

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