Saturday, August 22, 2026

Weekend Roundup

  • "Annette Gordon-Reed will present 'Thomas Jefferson and the Presidency," as the University of Northern Iowa’s 2026 Constitution Day address on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. in Bengtson Auditorium, Russell Hall," Cedar Falls, Iowa (Clear Lake Mirror Reporter). 
  • Western New Mexico University Professor Andy Hernandez's presentation to a recent Children’s Law Institute conference set out "the historical continuum from early state-sponsored practices and the Indian Slave Trade to the residential boarding school era" (WNMU).
  • A prince narrates the audiobook of Charles A. Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. 
  • The new Postdoctoral Associates and Mid-Career Fellows at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law include the historians Aaron Jacobs, who studies vigilantism, Eva Vaillancourt, whose current project is the history of European road traffic rules, and University of Kentucky professor Nikki Brown, an expert on race, representation, and African American history.  More
  • "The Law and Us," a new exhibit at Scotland's Supreme Court, includes a copy of Magna Carta (Scottish Legal News). 
  • A notice of Ava DuVernay's forthcoming documentary on the long-running battle over the 14th Amendment.
  • Fay Diploma winner Abigail Simon really liked her constitutional history course with Michael Klarman (Harvard Law Today). 

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