Weekend Roundup

• Boston College Law 's notice of its new legal historian, Marco Basile (BC Law).

• Mary Bilder, BC Law , will deliver “The Perils of Sex: Catharine Macaulay’s Constitution of Liberty” as the 13th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center on Wednesday, February 25, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.  The event will be livestreamed.

• Over at Legal History Miscellany: Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women’s Citizenship, by **Kay Crosby.  **

• G. Edward White, UVA Law , discusses his new biography Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgement on the American Bar Association's Modern Law Library podcast.

• Jessica Lake , Melbourne Law School , discusses her book Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law (UVA Law).

• Clare Cushman  discusses US Supreme Court Justice Day helped establish the Court's recusal practice (SCHS).

• Lawbook Exchange has issued its  February catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History.

• Quite a few interviews of interest to legal historians are in Columbia University's new Obama Presidential Oral History collection.

• A notice of Confluences of Law and History. Irish Legal History Society Discourses and Other Papers , edited by Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin (Irish Catholic).

• ICYMI: The groundbreaking legal career of Judge Lucile Watt s (Michigan Public Radio).  The “Renaissance” in Civic Education: Beyond the Salmon P. Chase Center (The Lantern).  Bhagat Singh Thind and his Citizenship Case (New York Alamanck).

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