Saturday, February 21, 2026

Weekend Roundup

  • Boston College Law's notice of its new legal historian, Marco Basile (BC Law).   
  • G. Edward White, UVA Lawdiscusses his new biography Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgement on the American Bar Association's Modern Law Library podcast.  
  • Jessica LakeMelbourne Law School, discusses her book Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law (UVA Law). 
  • Clare Cushman discusses US Supreme Court Justice Day helped establish the Court's recusal practice (SCHS).
  • A notice of Confluences of Law and History. Irish Legal History Society Discourses and Other Papers, edited by Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin (Irish Catholic).
  • ICYMI: The groundbreaking legal career of Judge Lucile Watts (Michigan Public Radio).  The “Renaissance” in Civic Education: Beyond the Salmon P. Chase Center (The Lantern).  Bhagat Singh Thind and his Citizenship Case (New York Alamanck).

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