Weekend Roundup

• On C-SPAN, Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center, discusses Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s The Common Law (1881), which the Library of Congress identified as one of the Books That Shaped America.  Library of Congress historian Ryan Reft provides a tour of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at LC and a view of Holmes's "black book."  A caller--self-described as a "mechanic," who came to Holmes by reading Louis Menand's Metaphysical Club--aptly asks whether the justice could fairly be described as result-oriented and whether Buck v. Bell was his worst decision.  Rosen also previews his forthcoming book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America (YouTube).  
  

• From In Custodia Legis: "A history of blasphemy laws in the United States"; "Clara Barton and the Geneva Convention."
  

• The U.S. Intellectual History Blog has published a roundtable on Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (St Martins, 2022), by Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern Law). Here's a link to the final post, which references earlier contributions. (h/t Balkinization)

• For the Brennan Center, Gautham Rao, Richard John, and Jane Manners have filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce on the history of judicial deference to administrative agencies.
  

• A special episode of the podcast All Things Judicial celebrated North Carolina Constitution Day with “excerpts of a discussion between Chief Justice Paul Newby and former University of North Carolina School of Law Professor John Orth on the history of the North Carolina Constitution”  (NC Judicial Branch).
  

• Over at Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians: "Recovering Histories of Gendered State Violence," by Sonia Hernández (Texas A&M University).

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  Located at the University at Buffalo School of Law, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy "plans to award post-doctoral and senior or mid-career fellowships to scholars pursuing important topics in law, legal institutions, and social policy. " More. 
  

• New online and open-access in the AJLH:  The Abolition of the Right to Trial by Jury in Civil Cases in England, by Charles S. Bullock.

• On the Stanford Legal podcast, Richard Thompson Ford and Pamela Karlan discuss Ford's book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (SLS Blogs)
  

• David Armitage on J.G.A. Pocock (Folgerpedia).
  

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

Weekend Roundup

•  From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Shay Ryan Olmstead (PhD candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst), "The new wave of anti-trans legislation is based on very old arguments and ideas"; Christopher B. Daly (Boston University), "Fifty years ago the Pentagon Papers shocked America — and they still matter today"; David Farber (University of Kansas) on why "it's time to make peace" with the War on Drugs; and more.
  

•  Neeti Nair on worrying new construction plans for the National Archives of India. More here.

•  Over at the Legal History Miscellany: Gwen Seabourne on runaway nuns, Cassie Watson on Victorian crime news, Krista Kesselring on domestic violence and the Court of Star Chamber, Sara M. Butler on medieval bail.

• A Call for Applications for visiting fellowships at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne (deadline: 30 Sept. 2021)

• From In Custodia Legis: Celebrating Magna Carta's Birthday; An Exploration of the Herencia Collection: Nuptial Agreements in Medieval Catalonia.
  

• Nate Holdren is interviewed on Injury Impoverished (In These Times). 
  

• Congratulations to Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt Law, for winning the 2020 David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Legal History for her book, Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America.
  

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  Mark Tushnet has guest edited an issue of Daedalus, entitled: The Administrative State in the Twenty-First Century: Deconstruction and/or Reconstruction.  The other contributors are Peter L. Strauss, Susan E. Dudley, Sean Farhang, David E. Lewis, Bernard W. Bell, Cary Coglianese, Beth Simone Noveck, Aaron L. Nielson, Christopher J. Walker, Avery White, Michael Neblo, Jeremy Kessler, Charles Sabel, Cass R. Sunstein and Neomi Rao
  

• New online from the AJLH and Oxford Journals: Why Black Homeowners are More Likely to be Caribbean American than African American in New York: A Theory of How Early West Indian Migrants Broke Racial Cartels in Housing, by  Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown

• Arizona State University History PhD candidate William Hobby has won a scholarship to research the “legal and cultural history of conflicts surrounding proposed expansion of the Arizona Snowbowl ski area on the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, primarily during the 1970s. . . .  'The San Francisco Peaks are sacred to numerous Indigenous nations of the American Southwest, and representatives from the tribes, especially the Diné and Hopi, were active in attempting to stop further development,' Hobby said."
  

• ICYMI: Marshall H. Tanick on Near v. Minnesota (Sun Post). Theodorea Regina Berry, University of Central Florida, on Juneteenth (UCF Today).  Historians on the Critical Race Theory bans in the NYT and Inside Higher Education.  Update: WaPo on the conservative activist behind the legislative drive,
  

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