Weekend Roundup

• We've previously noted the publication of Mrs. Shipley's Ghost, by Jeffrey Kahn. A (gated) review in the Chronicle of Higher Education is here.

• From History News Network: "How Did the IRS Get Investigatory Authority, Anyway?" Douglas M. Charles (Penn State) has the answer. 

• The European Association for Banking & Financial History presents 1914: Banks at War: Banks Confronted by WWI, a conference to be held on June 14, 2014.  Paper proposals are due September 1, 2013.  Hat tip: Legal Scholarship Blog

• Via the Poverty Law Blog: "In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the “War on Poverty,” the AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint program at the AALS Annual Meeting, entitled 50 Years After the “War on Poverty": Evaluating Past Enactments and Innovative Approaches for Addressing Poverty in the 21st Century." More info here.  

• John Q. Barrett, St. John's Law, introduced Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., at the Robert H. Jackson Center earlier this month.  Barrett's remarks touched upon, among other things, "some Jackson-like and Jackson-connected aspects of Chief Justice Roberts’ life and career; including his birth and early boyhood in western New York State, his service as a law clerk to former Jackson law clerk Justice William H. Rehnquist, and his private law practice with former Jackson law clerk E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr."

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