- Over at the Law & Political Economy Blog: Evan Bernick (Northern Illinois University College of Law) on "The Anti-Constitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship."
- Sarah L. H. Gronningsater (Penn History) will discuss The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (Penn Press, 2024) at two upcoming events in New York City: with Kimberly White (Penn History/Columbia Law) at the New York Society Library on February 10 and with Christoper Brown (Columbia University) at the New York Historical Society on February 13.
- There's still much of interest to legal historian at the ongoing conference of the Program in Early American Economy and Society of The Library Company of Philadelphia. We missed Gautham Rao on a panel on "The History of Early American Economy and Society, 1999-2024," but today Claire Priest is “Looking at Capitalism through the Lens of Property Law” (PEAS).
- The National Constitution Center and the Federal Judicial Center will convene historians, online and in person, for Reconstruction and the Constitution: A Historical Perspective on Monday, February 10, 9:45–11:45 a.m. ET. “Pamela Brandwein of the University of Michigan, Sherrilyn Ifill of Howard University School of Law, and Ilan Wurman of the University of Minnesota Law School will explore the 14th Amendment and the history of Reconstruction. Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University, Kate Masur of Northwestern University, and Dylan Penningroth of the University of California, Berkeley, will delve into the broader legal and social effects of Reconstruction beyond the amendments." Jeffrey Rosen moderates.
- A report of Jonathan Gienapp and Michael McConnell in conversation over Professor Gienapp's Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique at Stanford's Constitutional Law Center (Stanford Daily).
- The King's Court "visually reconstructs the long lost court of King’s Bench, using immersive digital technology and recorded sound to enable visitors to see and hear how it functioned during the Georgian period, between the late 1780s and early 1800s." You are there for the argument of King v. Stockdale (1789).
- Judge Richard Gergel of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina recently discussed his book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring at Georgetown Law.
- Having a hard time keeping up with the litigation against the Trump administration? Try Just Security's Litigation Tracker. Also: who's in charge at the National Archives, and for how long? (Current). And we're following efforts to recover and restore recently memory-holed federal websites onto publicly accessible servers and will post the most comprehensive portals when they are up.
- Here are the currently scheduled late-breaking session at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in April.
- A dedication ceremony for a historical marker for the civil rights attorney James R. Walker Jr., will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 22 at New Ahoskie Missionary Baptist Church at 401 West Hayes Street, in Chapel Hill, NC (rrspin).
- The University of Colorado Law School reflects on its history of education Black students (Colorado Law).
- Lawbook Exchange's February catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- ICYMI: Amy Howe on the history of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court (SCOTUSblog). Amanda Frost on the same (PBS News). Farrell Evans on how Dred Scott energized the anti‑slavery movement (History). Eric Segall on how the Roberts Court killed originalism (Dorf on Law).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
