Saturday, August 6, 2016

Weekend Roundup

  • The National Constitution Center has posted a three-part podcast with Sidney Blumenthal, William Forbath, and Sean Wilentz on political parties and the Constitution: an introduction plus constitutional histories of the Republican and Democratic Parties.
  • Yesterday, Dylan Penningroth and associates and fellows of the American Bar Foundation presented Civil Rights Advocacy: Past, Present and Future as one of several ABF events during the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
  • The Call for Panels is now out for the Commission on Legal Pluralism's conference, "Citizenship, Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Age of Globalization" in a year's time (Aug.9-11, 2017) in Syracuse, NY. The deadline is Sept. 30, 2016. 
  • Proclaiming Emancipation, an exhibit drawn from the William L. Clements Library, “with select items from collaborating institutions,” is now open at the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center.
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.