- Ajay K. Mehrotra reviews Dylan C. Penningroth's Before the Movement in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
- A notice of the Legal History Consortium at Penn, led by LHB Blogger Karen Tani, with due credit given to Past ASLH President Susan Barringer Gordon, who was Professor Tani's predecessor as director of the consortium. Also Professor Tani is among those faculty quoted by the Daily Pennsylvanian on teaching during Trump 2.0. DRE
- The Reed Gallery of the Dunedin Public Library has mounted an online exhibition of its Mary Downie Stewart Collection, a collection of portraits and autographed specimens of New Zealand judges, some of whom I discussed in this. H/t: MW. DRE
- A recording of that Tenement Museum-sponsored conversation, Receiving The Irish: The Origins of American Immigration Policy, with Hidetaka Hirota and Kevin Kenny.
- The April 2025 issue of the Newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is now available here. It includes a summary of the recently opened oral history of Judith Areen.
- Brian Leiter reports on the Oxford University Press's current policy on review copies (Leiter Reports).
- We've heard that the movie option for Victoria Saker Woeste's Henry Ford’s War and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech has been picked up and look forward to seeing it on the big screen.
- Lawbook Exchange's April catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History.
- Made by History, via Time Magazine: Michelle Bezark on What the Children’s Bureau Teaches us About Promoting Federal Programs. Brendan A. Shanahan says that A Century-Long Battle Over the Census is Brewing. Jeanne Theoharis on How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Martin Luther King Jr. and Segregation in the North. Hidetaka Hirota on The Long American Tradition of Categorizing Immigrants as Either Good or Bad.
- ICYMI: Lorianne Updike Schulzke makes an originalist case against overturning Humphrey's Executor (Volokh Conspiracy). Mark Tushnet on why he signed the HLS faculty's letter to their students (Balkinization). Andrew Wender Cohen on the history of tariffs (PBS). The lesson of Loving for the Roberts Court (Minnesota Star Tribune). A Short Course in Justice: the Freedmen’s Bureau Courts (JSTOR Daily). Ellen Schrecker says that the current assault on the university is worse than McCarthyism (The Nation).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
