- UC Law SF has posted a lovely interview of an excellent and exemplary legal historian, Reuel Schiller.
- A really interesting post by Nathan Dorn, Rare Books Curator at the Law Library of Congress, on Thomas Nugent, the translator of many of the European works that influenced American revolutionaries (In Custodia Legis).
- A notice of an event at Vanderbilt Law for Camellia Burris and Emily Siner’s "The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU," a podcast devoted to Geier v. Tennessee (1968) and Tennessee State University’s fight for fair funding. Its origins run to Ms. Burris’s auditing of Daniel Sharfstein’s course on the legal history of race.
- Oh, John R. McCarl, were you with us in such times! "Appointing the Comptroller General: Law and History" (CRS).
- The October 2026 issue of the newsletter of the Historical Society of the DC Circuit is now online. It includes a story on Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, which held that Northwest paid its female flight attendants less than male pursers performing equivalent work.
- In the first episode of "Law Office History," the podcast of the Institute for Justice, William Baude, University of Chicago Law School, discusses his coauthored article arguing that the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment wrote with the “general law” in mind.
- The ACLU's new history podcast kicks off with Marbury v. Madison, "The Messy Drama That Gave the Modern Supreme Court Its Power."
- ICYMI: Benjamin Victor Cohen, the New Deal's master legislative drafter, gets a historical marker in Indiana (collive). How the length of tenure of Supreme Court justices have changed over time (Brennan Center). Ryan Cooper's essay on Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's Supremacy in The American Prospect.
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
