Legal History

Weekend Roundup

• Simon Stern will speak online on "Reasonable Doubters: Cross-Examination, Detection, Mystification" on Wednesday, September 30, 12:30, under the auspices of the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto.  More information here.  
  

• The INS on the Line: A Discussion with Deborah Kang at the Yale Macmillan Center online on Friday, October 23, 2020 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm, with Cristina Rodríguez, Anna O. Law, and Brendan Shanahan.
  

• Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt Law, interviewed on Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America in Princeton Alumni Weekly.
  

• Theodore Gonzalves, National Museum of American History, Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, and Natalia Molina, University of Southern California at the National Museum of American History on Fear and Scapegoating during a Pandemic, online on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 4-5 PM.

• Over at History and the Law: Sanne Ravensbergen, Leiden University, on spatial perspectives on law in Batavia

• Penn Law's Serena Mayeri in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the impossible look easy." Retropolis on RBG's fateful research trip to Sweden (WaPo).
  

• Maeva Marcus on the early history of the US Supreme Court (History Channel).

• A lot, apparently: "What Trump Is Missing About American History," by Leslie M. Harris and Karin Wulf (Politico), and "What Trump Doesn't Understand about US History," by Sean Wilentz (WaPo).  The OAH's statement on the White House conference is here.

• For all you early risers: the University of Hong Kong is launching a new virtual Asian legal history seminar series, organized by the Faculty of Law and the Dept. of History. Here's the first event: a book session on Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia by LHB guest blogger this month, Nurfadzilah Yahaya (National University of Singapore) on Oct.12, 2020 at 6pm HK time (=6am ET). Register here to receive the Zoom link.
  

• A new catalogue from Lawbook Exchange: 47 Law Dictionaries: American, English and More. 

Full post as published by Legal History Blog on September 26, 2020 (boomark / email).