Weekend Roundup

• The School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study invites candidates to apply for a single term or full academic year. (Hat tip: H-Law)

• Some legal works in Swann's auction of Printed and Manuscript Americana on October 10, including Henry St. George Tucker’s Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia (1836-37); Laws of the State of New-York, Comprising the Constitution, and the Acts of the Legislature since the Revolution (1789); and The Two Principal Arguments of William Wirt, Esquire, on the Trial of Aaron Burr, for High Treason (1803).

• The Stanford Humanities Center invites applications for the 2014-15 fellowship term. (Hat tip: H-Law)

• "Lord Grantham's Predicament: What Downton Abbey Can Teach Us about Dying without a Will"

• From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Do You Know Where Your Ph.D.'s Are?"

• "The Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University invites outstanding faculty members, independent scholars, lawyers, and judges to apply for visiting, residential appointments for the academic year 2014–2015." There is a long and proud tradition of legal historian LAPA fellows, so apply! More information is available here.

• "Should historians use twitter?" The bloggers at the Historical Society weigh the pros and cons.

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