Weekend Roundup

• LHB mourns the passing of Ken Kersch, a professor of political science at Boston College and an excellent historian of American conservatism, including its constitutional dimensions.  David Bernstein has posted his AHR review of Kersch's Constructing Civil Liberties on the Volokh Conspiracy.  H/t: DS.
  

• An essay by H.L.A. Hart, found in Ronald Dworkin's papers and responding to Dworkin's work, has now been published in the American Journal of Jurisprudence as Policies, Principles, and Adjudication: (c. 1977-82). 

• From Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians: Jennifer Thomson (Bucknell University) reflects on her June 2024 Journal of American History article on “The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States.”

• Julian Ku ‘s review essay of Curtis Bradley’s Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Federalist Society). 
  

• From In Custodia Legis (the blog of the law librarians of Congress): news that the Senate Journal from Century of Lawmaking has been added to Congress.gov. Also: a remembrance of "Pablo Abeita: Judge and Isleta Governor."

• Keith Whittington, YLS, discusses his book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool in the podcast series of the Princeton University Press.

• The final Helsinki Legal History Series seminar of the year is “Corporations and Jurisdictional Culture: Exploring the Political Identity of Early Modern Iberian Monarchies,” presented by Pedro Cardim, Nova University Lisbon. Tuesday, December 10th, 2024, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (UTC+2) at University of Helsinki Main Building, Room U3039.  More.
  

• "The next online meeting of the Environment, Law, and History Global Workshop will take place at 9 pm GMT on Thursday, January 16. We will discuss with Rebecca McLennan (UC Berkeley History Department) her "Litigating Extinction, Anticipating the Anthropocene: Law, Nature, and the ‘Fur Seal Trial’ of 1893", with comments by Angela Fernandez (U Toronto Law)" (H-Law).
  

• CFP: "The Bentham Project is hosting a two-day conference entitled ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, which will take place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London, on 23 and 24 July 2025"  (H-Law). 
  

• From LPE Blog: Eamon Coburn (Yale Law School) on the history of treating abusive labor practices as a form of unfair competition (drawing on this recent piece in the Yale Law Journal).
  

• Syllabi for our times, from the Stanford's Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. 
  

• ICYMI: The legal historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal got a shout out when his student entered the transfer portal (Press-Telegram).  As a former Fulbrighter to NZ, I feel for that country's humanists (RNZ) (DRE).  Five times martial law was declared (History).  The first blind woman licensed to practice law in California (UC Law SF). A virtual tour of Hawaii's King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center (KHON). Ned Blackhawk’s list of best recent books about Native America (New Yorker).
  

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