Weekend Roundup

• Over at JOTWELL, Bethany Berger (Iowa College of Law) has posted an admiring review of Alexandra Fay's "Courts of Indian Offenses, Courts of Indian Resistance," which is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. Sida Liu (University of Hong Kong) praises Jedidiah J. Kroncke's "Legal Complicity in an Age of Resurgent Authoritarianism," forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. And Allison Brownell Tirres (University of San Francisco School of Law) spotlights Eric R. Schlereth's Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America (2024).

• Columbia Law is offering two new legal history courses, The 14th Amendment, taught by Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History, and Legal Conflict and Change During the Civil War and Reconstruction, taught by Kerrel Murray, Associate Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow.  

• At the back end of this episode of Strict Scrutiny, Kate Shaw (Penn Carey Law) chats with Serena Mayeri (Penn Carey Law) about Mayeri's new book Marital Privilege. 

• William Baude, University of Chicago Law, weighs in on birthright citizenship (Divided Argument). 

• Paul Moreno, Hillsdale College, reviews Private Finance, Public Power by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta in "the Forever Bank Wars" (Law and Liberty). 

• ICYMI: Historians say the professional study of history ain't over until history is over (and it's never over) (WaPo). The National Review on the Japanese American Internment.  The Heritage Foundation on Separation of Powers at the Founding.

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