Weekend Roundup

• Via Slate: Caitlin B. Tully (Princeton University) on "The Liberal Giant Who Doomed Roe." "The primary intellectual source of Alito’s opinion is not originalism," Tully writes, "but the legal scholar John Hart Ely, a self-professed liberal who taught at Yale, Stanford, and Miami, and who was one of the most cited constitutional law professors of the 20^th century." 
  

• John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Laura Kalman's FDR's Gambit (The Nation).
  

• Mary S. Bilder, Boston College Law, will discuss her book Female Genius at the Ford Evening Book Talk at the George Washington's Mount Vernon on August 24. 
  

• The CFP for the Seventeenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, to be held July 7-13, 2024 in Canterbury, UK, has been issued.  The deadline for submission is December 15, 2023 (ESCLH).
  

• Rachel Shelden, Penn State University, has won the Hughes-Gossett Award of the Supreme Court Historical Society for the best article published in the Journal of Supreme Court History, “Anatomy of a Presidential Campaign from the Supreme Court Bench: John McLean, Levi Woodbury, and the Election of 1848” (Penn State).
  

• 
  At 1 PM on July 17, the Supreme Court Historical Society will host a virtual conversation between Helen Knowles-Gardner and Dennis J. Hutchinson about Professor Knowles-Gardner's recent Journal of Supreme Court History essay on Professor Hutchinson's biography of Justice Byron White, The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White.  They will also discuss Justice White and "the importance of inspiration in the field of legal history."
  

• "Notre Dame Law School grants tenure to four professors," including the legal historian Christian Burset and the administrative law scholar Emily Bremer, who contributes to the history of that field (Notre Dame Law).

• Over at Balkinization, an interesting conversation is unfolding on the uses of history in Supreme Court decisionmaking, especially as pertains to the recent Haaland v. Brackeen case. W. Tanner Allread (Stanford University) writes about "Brackeen and the Value of Careful History." His post responds to an earlier post by Lorianne Updike Toler (Northern Illinois University College of Law) on "Brackeen’s Missteps & The Need for Neutral History."

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Chloe Thurston (Northwestern University) and Emily Zackin (Johns Hopkins University), "History says student loan debt relief isn’t un-American"; Noah Shusterman (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Prigozhin’s private army reminds us why we have the Second Amendment"; Luis A. Romero (Texas Christian University), "When pro-immigrant policies actually aren’t"; and more.
  

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