Weekend Round-Up

Weekend Round-Up Mar 24th 2012, 04:30 Around the Colloquia: Malick Ghachem, Maine Law, presented "The Legal History of Prisoner Voting: A View from the Northeastern United States" to his faculty's workshop.  Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, USC, presented "Sailors Before the Law and the Making of Republican Cosmopolitanism" to...

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CFP: ASLH-sponsored Panel @ Israeli Legal History Assn Annual Conference

CFP: ASLH-sponsored Panel @ Israeli Legal History Assn Annual Conference Mar 23rd 2012, 19:00 Via H-Law, we have the following CFP: Proposals are invited from members of the American Society for Legal History interested in joining an ASLH-sponsored panel at the Israeli Legal History Association's annual conference to be held...

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Friday LinkFest

Friday LinkFest Mar 23rd 2012, 18:30 A veritable smorgasbord of interesting items: ■ First up, The Feds are starting to roll out new ObamneyCare© regulations in the hopes of answering lingering questions about implementation of this train-wreck. Methinks they will generate more questions than answers. ■ FoIB Holly R sends...

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Sharfstein wins the Lukas Book Prize

Sharfstein wins the Lukas Book Prize Mar 23rd 2012, 18:19 Congratulations to legal historian Dan Sharfstein!  Here's the news from Columbia University:Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism have named the 2012 winners of the Lukas Prize Project Awards. A Vanderbilt University professor...

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On the LHB Facebook Page: Welcome Winston Bowman and Colin Wilder

On the LHB Facebook Page: Welcome Winston Bowman and Colin Wilder Mar 23rd 2012, 15:38 I am pleased to announce the LegalHistory Blog's new Facebook administrators, Winston Bowman and Colin Wilder.  Winston and Colin will behelping with the daily administration of the blog's Facebook page.     Winston...

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Medicare Part D - What You Need to Know

Medicare Part D - What You Need to Know Mar 23rd 2012, 08:58 Medicare Part D can be a snake pit if you don't understand how it works. Medicare Part...

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Law and Literature at John Jay: Sen, Anastaplo, Satire and More

Next week the John Jay College of Criminal Justice will be holding its Third Biennial Literature and Law Conference.  The conference runs from a keynote on the evening of Thursday, March 29--Amartya Sen’s lecture, "Law and Ideas of Justice"–and continues throughout the day on Friday, March 30.  Several session will be devoted to Sen’s work; another featured speaker is George Anastaplo, Loyola University of Chicago School...

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