- Via the New Books Network, an interview with Robert Post (Yale Law School) on The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930.
- Over at JOTWELL, Mary Ziegler (UC Davis School of Law) has posted an admiring review of Nicholas Syrett's The
Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Famous
Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime (2023).
- John Q. Barrett, St. Johns Law, delivered “Nuremberg Laws and Nuremberg Trials: Abuses and Uses, and Hopes, Regarding the Rule of Law,” at Touro Law Center's commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (YouTube).
- Owen Fiss, Yale Law School, discusses his book, Why We Vote, including "his work with the DOJ in southern states and his time as a clerk for then-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (then on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York) and then-Justice William J. Brennan Jr." on the ABAJ's Modern Law Library Podcast.
- Jack Rakove discusses The Constitution, Trump, and the Struggles of U.S. Courts to Interpret History with Rich Ford and Pam Karlin on the Stanford Legal Podcast.
- William A. Harris, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, will discuss the Library’s special exhibit, “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962" in an event live-streamed on the White House Historical Association's Facebook page starting at 5:30 pm ET on Tuesday, February 6 (More).
- Katherine Hobbs on Wilkie Collins, "The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women" (Smithsonian).
- A thread on a recent dispute between historians of political thought and of international law by Daragh Grant. H/t: Christian Burset, who notes that, while it focuses "most immediately on the tension between legal and intellectual historians from Cambridge," it has broader implications for how these disciplines relate to each other."
- Did you know of the interactive websites of Leigh Bienen, Northwestern University, on Chicago history, including homicides and Florence Kelly? (Infodocket)
- ICYMI, Trump v. Anderson Edition. Harvard Magazine on the Professors Blight, Faust and Lepore's amicus brief. Blight and Lepore discuss the case with NPR's Steve Inskeep (NPR). The National Constitution Center on Congress and the disqualification of Victor Berger under the 14th Amendment (NCC). Scalia, J., thought Presidents were "officers of the United States" (Lawfare). Lawrence O'Donnell on the historians' brief (MSNBC). Sean Wilentz on the Case for Disqualification (NYRB).
- Update: Manisha Sinha on her amicus brief on Dahlia Lithwick's Amicus podcast.
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
