Andrea Scoseria Katz on "Taft at the Beach: What the Supreme Court Misses About a Key Unitary Executive Precedent" (Can We Still Govern?)
William Howard Taft (LC)
- Michael Dreeben looks back at Humphrey's Executor (Just Security).
- Martha Jones's illustrated story in the New York Times Magazine on Elizabeth Freeman, who sued for her own freedom, is here.
- That Modern Criminal Law Review workshop, "Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective," may be viewed here and just heard here.
- Nathan Dorn, Rare Books Curator at the Law Library of Congress, continues his series of posts on Anglo-American natural law theorists with one on Thomas Rutherforth and his Institutes of Natural Law (In custodia legis).
- A notice of the "Slavery and the Judiciary Collection" of the Law Library of Congress, which "provides digital access to more than one hundred books and manuscripts documenting issues related to slavery and the courts from 1740 to 1860" (In custodia legis). Also fro the hardworking law librarians of Congress: "A Textbook for the Laws of Nature’s God: Thomas Rutherforth’s Institutes"; "Code and Policy in Action: Shared Legislative Targets Between the Yurok and Other Sovereign Entities."
- On July 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET, the Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series of the Law Librart of Congress will host the webinar Colonialisation, i, and an Unwritten Constitution: Understanding Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Legal System, presented by visiting scholar, librarian, and American Association of Law Libraries Schaffer Grant recipient, Theresa Buller, who is the subject librarian for law and criminal justice at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
- A notice of "Myths and Misunderstandings in Modern Irish History," by Patrick Geoghegan, the 2026 Hardiman lecture at the Supreme Court (Law Society Gazette).
- A Q&A with Hadar Aviram's Behind Ancient Bars: Narratives of Incarceration in the Hebrew Bible (University of California Press) (UC SF Law).
- Michael Dorf asks What Weight, If Any, Should Be Given Racist Laws In A History-and-Tradition Test? (Dorf on Law.)
- Nineteenth-Century NY Law and Birthright Citizenship: New York v. Miln (1837) (New York Almanack).
- A notice of Stacey Patton's Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children (Beacon Press, 2026) (New York Almanack).
- "Reflecting on America’s 250th anniversary: Revolution, the Constitution, and the founders" in the Princeton University Press's list (PUP). And, while we're at it, Princeton University and the Revolution.
- Lawbook Exchange's June 2026 list in Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- State Constitution Roundup: What made Pennsylvania's first ever constitution so radical that it only lasted 14 years? (WHYY). 1776 NC Constitution exhibit [is] part of ‘Capitol 250’ July 4 fest (Coastal Review). Bayard v. Singleton: Judicial review’s NC origins (Carolina Journal). The Hawaii Constitution (State Court Report).
- ICYMI: HIAS's illustrated history of US immigration (HIAS). Eugene V. Debs, Constitutional Voice (NCC). An appreciation of Raphael Lemkin, "the author of the concept of genocide" (UJE). Benjamin Perry and the fight against secession (Greenville Journal).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
