- Penn Law Dean Sophia Lee discusses "her work as a legal scholar and historian of administrative law" (Regulatory Review). And outgoing UVA Law Dean Risa Goluboff reflects on her tenure (UVA Today).
- Congratulations to Bethany Berger upon her receipt of the Perry Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award at UConn Law (UConn Today).
- Christine Lamberson, Director, Federal Judicial History Office, has a post on Chy Lung v. Freeman: Anti-Chinese Sentiment and the Supremacy of Federal Immigration Law on the FJC website.
- Jacob Coffelt University of Padova, on Codifying IHL before Lieber and Dunant: the 1820 treaty for the regularization of war (Humanitarian Law & Policy).
- Joy Milligan and Bertrall Ross, UVA Law, “discuss how we should interpret a Constitution that was not written for or drafted by ‘We the People,” on the Sidebar podcast.
- Prairie View A&M history professor Ronald Goodwin discussed the early Republic and how Americans tried to define equality and interpret the Constitution in the first decades of the United States. (C-SPAN)
- Jedidiah Kroncke reviews Aziz Rana's The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them (Jotwell).
- We recently discovered The Aotearoa History Show, a podcast of Radio New Zealand devoted to "the story of New Zealand and its people from its geological origins to modern day." Episode 2:6 is on the Native Land Court. Episode 2:12 is on Woman Suffrage.
- George Fisher, Stanford Law School , discusses his latest book, Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of Today’s War on Drugs, a history of criminal law and criminal institutions, including the regulation of alcohol and drugs (Legal Aggregate).
- The April 2024 issue of the Newsletter of the Historical Society of the DC Circuit is now available.
- ICYMI: Judge John Bush of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said the originalist approach to interpreting text “is consistent with, and indeed will thrive” with advancements in AI (Bloomberg). Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today (Marshall Project). Sponsors of removed historical marker dedicated to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ask judge to reconsider (Concord Monitor).
- ICYMI, April Fools Edition: Dueling, the Second Amendment, and the Fifth Circuit (Dorf on Law).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
