Weekend Roundup

• Justin Simard, Michigan State University Law School, on the Citing Slavery Project (The Conversation).
  

• Giuliana Perrone, UC Santa Barbara, from Juneteenth to Reparations (The Current).
  

• Amy Hart, UC Davis, says historians have a difficult task in guiding Supreme Court justices because 2024 is not 1789 or 1866 (The Conversation).

• Congratulations to Professor John W. Cairns upon his receipt of an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
  

• The National Constitution Center honors the civil rights lawyer William T. Coleman, Jr., with a bronze bas-relief (WHYY).
  

• A historical marker for Emma Coger, refused a seat at a table of white women on the steamboat S.S. Merrill, despite her first-class ticket, in 1872 (Quincy, IL Herald-Whig).
  

• Sometimes alma mater does the right thing: Annette Gordon-Reed discusses On Juneteenth with the Dartmouth Book Club.
  

• As Vanderbilt Law’s George Barrett Social Justice Lecture, Sara Mayeux and Robert L. Tsai discuss Tsai's Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All (Norton 2024) (YouTube).
  

• Undergraduates can again research slavery cases this summer in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, led by Katrina Jagodinsky (Nebraska Today).

• The Lawbook Exchange's June 2024 catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History is here.
  

• ICYMI: ACB dissents from (some of the) Brethrens' originalism (CNN; New Republic; Newsweek; Politico; Bloomberg Law).  Trump’s dangerous attacks on rule of law have US historical precedents (Guardian).  Bruen and the Billy-Club Ban (Buckeye Firearms Association).  The history of lobbying (Atlantic).  Lynching in Iowa (Des Moines Register).

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