Saturday, May 30, 2026

Weekend Roundup

  • A review symposium on Serena Mayeri’s Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law, with contributions from Albertina Antognini, Cary Franklin, Jessica Dixon Weaver, Deborah Dinner, Linda C. McClain, and Katie Eyer, with a response by Professor Mayeri (BU Law Review Online).  
  • Marlene Trestman will be in conversation about her book, Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin, in person and online, with Senior Judge Beryl A. Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC on June 4, from 6:30-7:30.  Register here.
  • Bill Littlefield reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery (arts fuse).
  • Jonathan Parry reviews H.S. Jones’s Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect (London Review of Books).
  • Robert Tsai and others will discuss John Brown's provisional constitution on June 29. 
  • Rodger Citron on that podcast with Samantha Barbas on her book on New York Times v. Sullivan (Verdict).   

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