Saturday, December 13, 2025

Weekend Roundup

  • A notice of Daniel Gervais's book chapter, “Trade Secret Law in the United States: Evolution, Framework, and Federalization" (Vanderbilt Law).
  • The Brennan Center for Justice has published a resource on "Countering Originalism." The Center explains: "This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation."
  • Trump v. Slaughter Roundup, Round 2: Jane Manners and Lev Menand on the original meaning of a term of years (Notice & Comment).  Originalism, what originialism? (Slate). Menand fact checks the oral argument (Notice & Comment).  Noah Rosenblum on Vox's Today Explained
    Beau Baumann and Nathaniel Donahue discuss the oral arguments (PPT).
  • Credit: Highsmith (LC)
    Save Ben Shahn's "Meaning of Social Security"! (NR). 
  • Paul Finkelman reviews Brad Snyder's You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads (LARB). 
  • A new exhibit on foundational documents of Ohio constitutional history (CNO). 
  • Time's "Made by History": The historians on Ken Burn's "American Revolution").    
  • That National Constitution Center session on Robert H. Jackson with John Q. Barrett, Gerard Magliocca, and G. Edward White has now been posted to the NCC's YouTube channel.
  • ICYMI: Nick Salvatore (1943-2025) (Ithaca Voice).  More Lepore (Persuasion).  John Yoo on birthright citizenship (Fox). How the Immigration Act of 1924 Tried to Reshape America (History).

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