- A Q&A with Jane Manners, who joined Fordham's law faculty this fall (Fordham Law News).
- The death of former Vice President Dick Cheney has prompted reflections on his significance for U.S. legal history, including this one at the Conversation and this one at the New York Times.
- Marlene Trestman has updated her database of 817 women who have argued before the U.S. Supreme Court (through May 15, 2025). It is now live on the Supreme Court Historical Society's website.
- The Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School will host the symposium, The Un-Forgotten Founder: A Celebration of George Mason's Legacy on the Occasion of His 300th Birthday, on December 8, 2025. The panelists include Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School; Michael S. Greve, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School; The Honorable Edith Hollan Jones, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; and The Honorable William C. Mims, Senior Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia.
- Mitchell Del Bianco, who graduated this year from UVA Law's famed JD-MA program, has won the Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition for his paper, “What Is a House? An Exhibit Investigating Common Law Origins of the Open Fields Doctrine.” He wrote it for Professor Paul Halliday’s legal history class. (UVA Law).
- Speaking of UVA Law, new courses taught in the January term and Spring 2026 semester include "Citizenship: The Law, History and Politics of U.S. Citizenship," co-taught by Karsh fellow Anja Bossow and Professor Amanda Frost; "Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence," co-taught by Charles Barzun and David Plunkett, visiting from Dartmouth's philosophy department; and "Roman Law of Family, Property and Succession," taught by Michael Doran.
- Cultural Critique Online has published a roundtable on The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities (Duke University Press, 2023), by Timothy Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman College). It features responses by Joshua Barkan (Georgia), Michael Banerjee (UC Berkeley), and Adam Sitze (Amherst), along with a reply by Kaufman-Osborn.
- Julian Zelizer interviews John Fabian Witt on his book The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
- Miloš Vec, University of Vienna, will deliver the lecture After 1919 and after 1945: How Two World Wars Shaped German Thinking on International Law, at Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana on November 14, 2025, at 3:00 pm. More.
- If you don't know who Sam Thorne was, consult this, which, for reasons known only to the algorithm, found its way to us this week.
- Lawbook Exchange's November catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- ICYMI: More Lepore (Harvard Crimson). Kenya's new judiciary museum (Eastleigh Voice). An essay on Abortion, the 1966 book by the journalist Larry Nadler and the birth of the reproductive rights movement (Public Books). The history of China's legal exam (World of Chinese).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
