Weekend Roundup

• Amici, the podcast series of nycourts.gov, has an interview with Marilyn Marcus, executive director of the Historical Society of the New York Courts.  Among other things, Ms. Marcus discusses Former Chief Judge Judith Kaye's role in founding the Society.

• Two historians of medieval law provided the substance for recent posts by Eric Grundhauser on Atlas Obscura.  Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was the source for The Truth and Myth Behind Animal Trials in the Middle Ages.   Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, did the honors for What It Was Like to Seek Asylum in Medieval England.

• The American Lawyer has honored former Georgetown law dean (and FTC chairperson) Robert Pitofsky with its Lifetime Achievement Award. 

• Florida International University's press release noting Professor M.C. Mirow's selection to co-direct a graduate student colloquium at October's ASLH meeting is here. 

• Speaking of the ASLH, we just got our electronic ballot.  It's a good time for readers who aren't members to join, and for members to reflect on their priorities in choosing board members, including recognizing legal historians who work on times and places other than one's own.

• Edward J. Balleisen on teaching legal and business history in Duke Magazine. H/t: Brad Snyder

• Brian Balogh, of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs and history department, will speak on his book The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century in the Miller Center’s “American Forum” series on Wednesday, September 2, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  The talk will be webcasted live and followed by a book signing.

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

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