Saturday, August 2, 2025

Weekend Roundup

  • "History in Action: A Conversation with Professor Felicia Kornbluh"(UVM). 
  • Richard Epstein on his career as a legal scholar (and other topics) in the "Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century" podcast series of the Hoover Institution (Hoover).  
  • Lindsay Chervinsky joins Saikrishna Prakash, Virginia Law, online to discuss her book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic, and “how the Constitution and the presidency were shaped by the demands of the times and how both continue to evolve.”  Thursday, September 4, 2025, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.  Sponsored by the UVA Miller Center (UVA Law).
  • The University of Chicago Law School's notice of Alison LaCroix's receipt of that SHEAR book prize for The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms.
  • Mary Ziegler, UC Davis School of Law, and Stephen Gilles, Quinnipiac University School of Law discuss Professor Ziegler’s book Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction in a National Constitution Center podcast.   
  • "Gerard Magliocca is the winner of the Erwin N. Griswold Prize [of the Supreme Court Historical Society] for his book Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Oxford University Press, 2022). The Griswold Prize is awarded on an occasional basis when a book about the history of the Supreme Court" (SCHS).
  • This year, University of New Mexico School of Law is looking to hire in the fields criminal law, civil procedure, Law and Indigenous People, clinic and legal research and writing 

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