Weekend Roundup

• The Wall Street Journal interviewed Laura Phillips Sawyer (University of Georgia School of Law) for this piece on the Justice Department's pursuit of Google over its allegedly anti-competitive conduct. 

• Anders Walker reviews Walter Johnson’s The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (2020) on Jotwell. 
  

• Ellen DuBois speaks on her book on Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote in the Washington History Seminar on Monday, October 26 at 4:00 pm ET.  Register for the webinar here or watch on live our Facebook Page.
  

• Ronit Stahl, Berkeley, delivers Lessons from RBG: Jews & Religious Freedom in the United States (The Paul & Dorothy Grob Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia) on Thursday, October 29, from 7-8PM EST. 

• Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore, did online events recently at NUS, the University of Hong Kong, and elsewhere on her book, Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Here's a recorded one hosted by the HLS Program in Islamic Law last month.
  

• Just published: Holmes Reads Holmes: Reflections on the Real-Life Links Between the Jurist and the Detective, ed. Ross E. Davies and M. H. Hoeflich (Lawbook Exchange, 2020).
  

• ICYMI: Alexander Zhang, a J.D./Ph.D. student in law and history at Yale, on "The Forgotten Third Amendment [that] Could Give Pandemic-Struck America a Way Forward" (The Atlantic).  50 historic moments in the U.S. Supreme Court (Stacker via the Buffalo News).  Jerold Auerbach recalls--not happily--his Development of Legal Institutions class at Columbia Law School.  For more on Julius Goebel, this.
  

• Update: ConSource digital library to the Quill Project in Oxford (Real Clear Education).
  

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

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