- Berkeley Law's notice of its new legal historian, Aaron Hall (UC Berkeley Law).
- Daniel F. Gosling, Principal Legal Records Specialist at UK's National Archives, has announced the completion of his searchable database of
- Legal Histories of Empire has posted a "save the date" for its fifth conference, 13-15 July 2028, at NLSIU Bengaluru.
- The University of Kansas's notice of Raj Bhala's article on the rule of law in “Measure for Measure" (KU News).
- The Library of Congress has a new research guide on the Legal Tender Act of 1862.
- Kevin Kruse on The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rebirth of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division (Talking Feds with Harry Litman).
- Julia Rose Kraut, Sam Lebovic and Ellen Schrecker's amicus brief in an ideological deportation case, AAUP v. Rubio (1st Cir.) (Brennan Center).
- The legal historian Patti Minter has been appointed to Kentucky’s Board of Education (College Heights Herald).
- Noticed in the New York Almanack: Carol Kammen's Smut: An 1883 Obscenity Trial and Its Echoes Today (Paul Dry Books, 2026), on an 1883 trial for “selling and exhibiting obscene pictures.”
- Rosemarie Zagarri on The Grievances of the Declaration of Independence: a National Constitution Center podcast.
- Danielle Allen and Mary Bilder on the Declaration of Independence on Preet Bharara's podcast.
- Robert P. George, Princeton University, and Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University, on the Declaration of Independence as the nation’s “promissory note” (SLS Podcasts).
- Did the Constitution Lay the Groundwork for Abolition? A Federalist Society webinar with Timothy Sandefur and Kenneth Williams. The recording of the National Constitution Center's book even for Mr. Sandefur's new book Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence is here.
- "Founding Friends, Founding Foes": Kurt Graham and Steve Light on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, at the Harry S. Truman Library on September 23.
- A notice of Gautham Rao's course, HIST-196 America at 250: Revolution (AU Magazine).
- Check out Drafting the Past: "a new home to celebrate nonfiction history books."
- ICYMI: Hangings in Jefferson County, PA (ExploreJefferson). What the Framers Were Really Thinking (Harvard Gazette). Ohio in the oleomargarine wars (CNO) .
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
