Weekend Roundup

• This week's legal-historian-recognized-for teaching-at-a-law-school is Penn Carey Law's Sophia Z. Lee, whom the JD Class of 2023 chose to receive the Harvey Levin Memorial Teaching Award before her naming as incoming dean.
  

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  Adrian Chastain Weimer, Providence College, discusses her new book, A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) (Current).
  

• Christoper W. Schmidt on Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice (Jotwell).  
  

• "The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will open a new major special exhibition, Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962, on Saturday, June 3, 2023, in the William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery of the Library and Museum. The exhibit runs through December 31, 2024."
  

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  In History and myth: why the Treaty of Waitangi remains such a ‘bloody difficult subject,” Bain Munro Attwood, Monash University, discusses his book  A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History  (The Conversation).

• Over at the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: Banking Crises in Historical Perspective, a report on a paper by Carola Frydman, Northwestern University, and Chenzi Xu, Stanford University.  It “surveys over two hundred empirical studies from the last twenty years (2000-2022) that cover banking crises occurring between 1800 and 1980.”

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: James Gregory (University of Washington), "A new law addresses the harm done by decades of racist housing practices"; Leslie M. Alexander (Rutgers University), "Biden’s border policies target Haitians. That’s no accident."

• The American Council of Learned Societies has launched a book prize for open access works.  H/t: MS.   
  

• The June 1 deadline for nominations for the prizes of the American Society for Legal History is impending!
  

• ICYMI: Abolition as a "divisive concept" avant la lettre (ACS). 
  

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

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