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Julia Rose Kraut, the Judith S. Kaye Fellow for the Historical Society of the New York Courts, will speak on her book Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States in the Washington History Seminar of the National History Center of the American Historical Association on October 14 at 4:00 ET. From the announcement: "Kraut also highlights lawyers, including Clarence Darrow and Carol Weiss King." Register here.

The US Customs and Border Patrol has asked the National Archives to "designate as temporary all records regarding CBP?s dealings with DHS?s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: a recipient of complaints of civil rights abuses from across the department." More.

The Federal Judicial Center has announced "Spotlight on Judicial History," a series of ?brief essays, posted periodically, on a wide variety of interesting topics related to federal court history. The first, by Jake Kobrik, is A Brief History of Circuit Riding.

Lorianne Updike Toler, Information Society Project, Yale Law School, has posted The Publication of Constitutional Convention Records, a ? short history of the print and digital publication of all records of the Constitutional Convention, from 1787-2020.?

The recording of the National History Center's congressional briefing, "Financial Responses to Economic Crisis," is here.

You had us at "Hughes": Avoiding Post-Election Chaos: Wilson vs. Hughes, 1916 by Matthew Waxman (Lawfare). Also: a video on the history of housing discrimination in Arlington, VA.

Update: Rutgers British Studies Center is hosting Empires of Law in Colonial South Asia this Monday at 12pm-1ET for a Q&A session (register here) with Tanya Agathocleous and our blogger Mitra Sharafi. The video talks are posted here.

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

Full post as published by Legal History Blog on October 10, 2020 (boomark / email).