Saturday, April 18, 2026

Weekend Roundup

  • Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School, delivers the 2026 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School on Catherine Macaulay's 1767 pamphlet, "Loose Remarks." 
  • The Columbia Law Library tells the law school's history through an exhibit of its "artifacts and treasures" (CLS).  
  • And the Princeton University Library has opened the exhibit “Nursery of Rebellion’: Princeton and the American Revolution,” featuring original copies of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution (Daily Princetonian).

  • Greg Ablavsky, Stanford Law, on Native Nations, Federal Indian Law, and the Birthright Citizenship Case (SLS Podcasts).  Also, the National Constitution Center's resource guide for classroom discussions of the birthright citizenship.
  • More on that PRA EO: Marty Lederman, Georgetown Law, and Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law, on who owns Presidential Records (Executive Function Chat).   Christopher Fonzone says that the Presidential Records Act is Constitutional (Just Security).  Gary M. Stern, a former general counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration, is astonished by the executive order (WaPo). 
  • ICYMI: Jane Manners and Lev Menand summarize their argument on "The Law of For Cause Removal" (Oxford Business Law Blog).  Live from Penn Carey Law via WHYY: Kermit Roosevelt and Amanda Shanor of the history of the U.S. Supreme Court (YouTube).  Larry Solum takes issue with Richard Primus on enumeration and constitutional interpretation (Legal Theory Blog).

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