Saturday, March 15, 2025

Weekend Roundup

  • To celebrate its 90th anniversary, the Stair Society held a legal history moot, according to Scottish law in 1851, a case involving wages for domestic service and an action of seduction (SLN).
  • Daniel Huslebosch, NYU Law, will deliver a virtual talk, “Confiscation in the American Revolution: Taking Property, Making the State,” before the Schenectady County Historical Society on April 2, at 7:00pm (News10).
  • The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians have issued a joint statement on "federal censorship of American History."
  • The Madison minimizers still have their work cut out for them, judging from this essay for Voice of America.
  • Law professors and historians at Willamette University "addressed the authoritarian tendencies of President Donald Trump’s second administration and debated historical similarities with European fascism" (Salem Reporter).
  • Members of the Women and the Law Division of Indiana State Bar have created All Rise, a coloring book on inspirational women in the state's history.
  • ICYMI: A notice of the first six months of the honorary historian of the New York State Unified Court System, former Court of Appeals Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt (LAW360).  Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme, writes Lawrence B. Glickman (Boston Review).  Peter Neal says, No, Let's Not Bring Back Letters of Marque (Lawfare).  The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Barron County Historical Society are preparing a new historical marker on Ojibwe treaty rights and the “Walleye Wars” near Rice Lake (Barron News-Shield).

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