Weekend Roundup

• Balkinization is hosting a symposium on "Law and Historical Materialism" by Jeremy Kessler (Columbia Law). Samuel Moyn (Yale Law) kicked things off. Other participants include Yochai Benkler, Corinne Blalock, Matthew Dimick, Paul Gowder, Brian Leiter, Eva Nanopoulos, and Talha Syed.
  

• Via Time's "Made by History" section: Christine Adams (St. Mary’s College of Maryland), "The French Revolution Offers a Warning About Presidential Immunity"; Kali Nicole Gross (Emory University), "Why Kamala Harris’ Promises on Abortion Matter So Much to Black Women"; Marie-Amélie George (Wake Forest University School of Law), "The False Idea Behind Project 2025’s Plans for LGBTQ Rights."
  

• Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden discuss “early American political culture and political civility in the early American republic” (Ben Franklin’s World podcast).
  

• Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, will address the Law and History Network Seminar, online via Zoom, on “Undoubtedly a principle of English criminal law”: The use of precedent in R v Tolson on October 9, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM
  

• A report of an interview of James Obergefell at the Marquette Law School on September 18, 2024 (Marquette Law Faculty Blog).
  

• "Milestones in Hispanic Legal History in California" (California Courts Newsroom).
  

• "Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch talked about civility at the Constitutional Convention" at the National Constitution Center (C-SPAN).

• "For the project 'The Rhine as Legal Entity? Exploring Multilevel Governance and Intercity Relations in the 16th-Century Wine Trades across the Rhine Region' Tilburg University is hiring a postdoctoral researcher with a passion for (legal) historical research." More.
  

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Poughkeepsie Public Library District present the annual Paul M. Sparrow Lecture, “Foundations of a Movement: Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts,” a conversation with Basil Smikle on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 4:00 p.m, in the Henry A. Wallace Center It will also be streamed live to the official FDR Presidential Library YouTube and Facebook accounts. Register here. 
  

• The Brennan Center for Justice in partnership with the Organization of American Historians, will host The Fight Against Originalism Continues, a live virtual event on Wednesday, October 2, 1pm ET.  Speakers are Jonathan Gienapp, Gautham Rao, Rachel Shelden, and Thomas Wolf.
  

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  Just concluded: the 44th Rechtshistorikertag biennial conference of German-speaking legal historians, devoted to “The Language of Sources," at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
  

• Aziz Rana will speak on The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them at the Clough Center at Boston College on Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5:00 - 7:00 PM.  Live stream link here.
  

• A table of Supreme Court decisions overruled by subsequent decisions (Constitution Annotated).
  

• ICYMI: Some Supreme Court justices left the bench for more interesting work (AP).  The framers of the Constitution didn’t want you to choose the president, says Michael Klarman (Harvard Law Today).
  

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