Weekend Roundup

• Can't We All Just Give Magna Carta a Rest? asks Chicago Law's Tom Ginsburg in a New York Times op-ed. Um, no, replies Wofford's Mark Byrnes.  It's complicated, adds Harvard Law's Elizabeth Papp Kamali.

• Judge Damon J. "Keith's life and legal career impact and inspire many," says the Detroit Free Press.

• Using a photo album to spark research into the history of African American Women, in Martha Jones's seminar at the University of Michigan. 

• Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Faculty of Law, has posted Lincoln and Merryman.  He writes, “My goal is to displace the several factual and legal myths associated with Ex Parte Merryman, and to explain the practical modern relevance of this project.”

• Via the Faculty Lounge's Alfred Brophy and Columbia Law School's Sabrina Sondhi, here are Karl Llewellyn's midterm exams in contracts in 1930 and 1931.  The latter set off a student protest reported in the New York Times.

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

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