Saturday, April 25, 2026

Weekend Roundup

  • Elizabeth Papp Kamali on "Charles Donahue: Man, Magister, Inimitable Scholar" (Harvard Law Bulletin).  
  • The HLS Library has scanned "Harvard’s full collection of 140,000 documents comprising more than 700,000 pages" to produce :the first complete, keyword-searchable online collection of the Nuremberg Trials records" (Harvard Law Bulletin).
  • BU Law's notice of legal historian Rephael Stern. 
  • Congratulations to Alison LaCroix, upon her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Also William Baude and Elizabeth Clemens (UChicago News).  Professor LaCroix will also be the speaker at the University of Chicago's 2026 Commencement this June.
  • A notice of Jill Lepore's HLS seminar, “The History of Evidence,” devoted to "two key questions: 'What counts as proof?' and 'How has that changed over time?'” (Harvard Law Today).  She discussed her book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
  • Mary Sarah Bilder and Sarah Isgur will "explore Virginia's central role shaping the nation's founding" as part of the 2026 Founding Debates Program of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon and the Virginia Law Foundation on September 24, 2026, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  (More.)
  • ICYMI: Martin v Hunter’s Lessee (History is Now).  Michael D. Ramsey, Keith Whittington, Kurt Lash, and Lawrence Solum on birthright citizenship (Regulatory Review). The Forgotten History of the School Choice Movement (AEI).

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