Saturday, December 20, 2025

Weekend Roundup

  • Catherine Ceniza Choy, Cybelle Fox, Leti Volpp, and Hidetaka Hirota "discuss how the 1875 Page Act laid the foundation for the Chinese Exclusion Act and later immigration laws in the United States" (Berkeley Talks).
  • "Remembering Mitsuye Endo and the Supreme Court Case That Helped End Incarceration" (Densho).
  •  Applications for the Baldy Center Post-Doctoral, Mid-Career, and Senior Fellowships in Legal Studies 2026-27 at the University at Buffalo School of Law are now open!   
  • Adam Feldman on the death of the norm of consensus on the U.S Supreme Court--and after.  (SCOTUSblog).
  • The Brennan Center for Justice's "Playbook for Countering Originalism in Court"
  • "Inside the Supreme Court of Canada: The Road to the Charter" (CPAC).  
  •  Christopher Bryant, University of Cincinnati College of Law, on the temporary insanity defense of the bootlegger George Remis (UC Law). 
  • ICYMI: A train wreck and Grand Central station (Smithsonian).  The History of the Kings County Supreme Court Library (NYLJ).  Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (NYT Magazine). The 1884 Cannibalism-at-Sea Case That Still Has Harvard Talking (Harvard Magazine).

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