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Weekend Roundup

• William S. Bush and David Tanenhaus discuss their new edited collection, Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice, with Tamara Myers of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, here.
  

• Thanks to Kaneesha R. Johnson for the pointer to this oral history of Pauli Murray by Genna Rae McNeil and the Southern Oral History Program. 
  

• New from ASLH online: "The Southern and Western Prehistory of 'Liberty of Contract': Revisiting the Path to Lochner in Light of the New History of American Capitalism," by Gabrielle E Clark.  Abstract here.
  

• At the Washington Post's Made by History: Stony Brook University's George Aumoithe on the racist history of why some communities don't have enough ICU beds.

• Over at Lawfare: Columbia Law's Matthew Waxman on Eisenhower and War Powers.
  

•  Paul Finkelman, the president of Gratz College, was interviewed on the history of slavery and law at Gustavus Adolphus College.
  

• The University of Texas at Dallas announces the hiring of S. Deborah Kang, and Yale University announces the hiring of ASLH President Lauren Benton.
  

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

Full post as published by Legal History Blog on September 19, 2020 (boomark / email).