- The Asian Legal History Association has hosted its official launch in Hong Kong (The Standard). The speech of the Secretary for Justice, Paul Lam, at the launch is here.
- Ian Mansfield's review of the exhibition, Londoners on Trial: Crime, Courts and the Public 1244-1924, at the London Archives until February 25, 2027.
- From the Conversation: "The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language."
- Over at JOTWELL: Blake Emerson (UCLA Law) has posted an admiring review of Nathaniel Donahue's "Officers at Common Law," which is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal.
- Ashley Everson on Pauli Murray, the Brown Decision, and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Black Perspectives).
- A notice of Akhil Reed Amar's Giannella lecture at Villanova on Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 (Villanovan).
- Five Takeaways from conference on Richard Primus’s The Oldest Constitutional Question (Michigan Law).
- Now online: the website of the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy at Howard Law School, led by Sherrilyn Ifill.
- ICYMI: Birthright Citizenship Edition. Dahlia Lithwick spoke to Anna O. Law about Law's book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship (Amicus). Ilya Somin on Slavery and Birthright Citizenship (Lawfare). Smita Ghosh on Lynch v. Clarke (1844), the birthright citizenship case you never heard of (Slate). Akhil and Vikram Amar and Jason Mazzone on why why the text, history, and structure of a landmark 1952 statute doom Trump’s executive order (SCOTUSblog).
- ICYMI: Orin S. Kerr on How AI Tools Can Help With Legal History Research (Volokh Conspiracy). "The Trump administration’s campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that 'inappropriately disparage' historical figures" has bogged down (Politico).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
