- Over at The Constitution Society, Ian Ward has a post about his new book, The Trials of King Charles I (Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law School, reviewed Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives (WaPo).
- On Friday, November 25, 2022, Brian Z. Tamanaha will speak to the Forum on Historical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University’s Centre for Legal History (Scottish Legal News).
- NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang has published an explainer on the Pinkney Plan, for those of you trying to come up to speed on the Independent State Legislature case.
- All three of the founders of the Yale Law School “were well-known for their involvement in cases revolving around slavery — David Daggett and Samuel Johnson Hitchcock in pro-slavery cases and Seth Perkins Staples in pro-abolition cases.” A tour now visits their graves in New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery. It "accompanies a broader exhibit at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, “Race, Slavery & the Founders of Yale Law School," curated by Fred Shapiro and rare book librarian Kathryn James" (Yale Daily News).
- "A rare copy from the first printing of the U.S. Constitution is hitting the auction block on December 13. The copy of the Constitution, dubbed the 'Adrian Van Sinderen Constitution' after its longtime owner, is one of only 13 originals known to be in existence, and one of two copies from the first run of prints." (PBS Newshour).
- Thomas Healy’s Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia (Metropolitan Books) was named winner of the 2021 Hooks National Book Award by the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis" (Seton Hall University).
- The annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History starts Thursday in Chicago. Look for us there! The ASLH is inviting live-tweeting (#ASLH2022) if tweeting is still a thing then.
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
