Saturday, June 20, 2026

Weekend Roundup

  • The recording of the National Constitution Center's session on the Constitution and the Courts, held in conjunction with the Federal Judicial Center, is now available.  It consists of a panel on the Constitution in the Founding Era with Akhil Reed Amar, Christopher Bonner, and Gerald F. Leonard, moderated by Thomas Donnelly, and a discussion on the Constitution and the federal judiciary with Kevin Arlyck, moderated by Julie Silverbrook.  
  • Alison L. LaCroix's speech to the University of Chicago's graduates is here.  H/t: JDM
  • From In Custodia Legis: "A Deep Dive into Library Resources on Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp." -- Part 1 and Part 2.   
  • Saul Cornell appears in "The American Experiment," a five-part documentary on the nation’s founding that starts streaming on Netflix on June 24 (Fordham Law).
  • Margaret Burnham and Brenda E. Stevenson on opening the federal archives on Civil Rights Cold Cases (AHA Perspectives). 
  • "The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law is pleased to announce the 2026–2027 recipients of the Steven M. Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History: Kate Andrias, Olatunde Johnson, William Novak, Alice O’Brien, and Julie Suk."   

  • "Is the United States on the Road to a New Civil War?" David Blight's lecture to the American Academy in Berlin. 
  • ICYMI: More Gordon Wood tributes (LOA).  250 Years of State Constitutions (SCR). The NJ State Library's exhibit on the state's first constitution (tapinto).  Jesse Wegman discusses James Wilson (Fresh Air).  The University of Pennsylvania Almanac notes Serena Mayeri's receipt of the 2026 James Willard Hurst Book Prize From Law & Society Association.  The lessons of the Harry Raymond car bombing of 1938 for police accountability today (DJ).  When Robert E. Lee's daughter was arrested in a Jim Crow streetcar dispute (Alexandria Brief).

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