Weekend Roundup

• Over at Balkinization: a symposium on Dylan C. Penningroth's Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023), featuring contributors Evelyn Atkinson (Tulane), Ian Ayres (Yale), Mark Graber (Maryland), Steve Griffin (Tulane), Carol Rose (Yale), and Mark Tushnet (Harvard).
  

• Aditya Bamzai, University of Virginia School of Law, Johann Neem, Western Washington University, Farah Peterson, University of Chicago Law School, and Jack Rakove, Stanford University, on the Articles of Confederation at the National Constitution Center (YouTube). 
  

• Thomas J. McSweeney, William & Mary Law School, a recipient of the university's 2025 McGlothlin Award for Exceptional Teaching.

• On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 12PM – 1PM (Pacific) the Oregon Historical Society will host, as part of its series, "Historians and the News," the virtual event Free Speech, Misinformation, and National Security, a conversation with Sam Lebovic and Christopher McKnight Nichols.  Register here.

•  Stephanie Hall Barclay, Georgetown University Law Center, responds to

  

  John Marshall Harlan (LC)

  Jud Campbell’s “Determining Rights” in the Harvard Law Review.

• ICYMI: Harvard's Magna Carta (The Crimson). Charles Barzun on the quiet radicalism of Justice Souter (SCOTUSblog).  Centre College's sculpture of John Marshall Harlan (Lane Report). Bruce Ackerman and Susan Rose-Ackerman on the APA and Postwar Fears of Executive Power (Slate). Wong Kim Ark's great grandson and birthright citizenship (Post Reports).

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