- Jack Rakove on "The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity" (Washington Monthly).
- Meet Magdalene Zier, Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, "whose research explores histories of discrimination, social movements, and constitutional law in the United States" (PennCareyLaw).
- From History News Network: a feature by Victor Manuel Cázares Lira on Gordon Wood: "Famous for his books about the founders, Gordon S. Wood’s true legacy may have been about showing how futile their efforts were in the face of pressures from below."
- The National Constitution Center’s session on John Dickinson, Gouverneur Morris, Roger Sherman, and James Wilson, with Carol Berkin, Jane E. Calvert, Scott S. Greenberger, and Jesse Wegman is here.
- On Wednesday, the ACLU launched Let the Record Show, "a new, irreverent American history podcast that looks back on the people and places behind defining legal moments for rights and freedoms in the United States."
- A reminder: the webinar Reading the Past: Historians and Lawyers in Dialogue, with Laura Edwards, Serena Mayeri, Thomas Wolf, Samuel Breidbart, and Stephen Wermiel, will take place on September 29, 2026, from 3-4pm EDT.
- Relatedly: Joseph Blocher and Brandon Garrett on how new constitutional tests force courts to “play historian” (Duke Law), and the Honorable James A. Wynn on how judges decide which history counts (Marquette Law).
- A report of Marla Ramírez's discussion of her new book, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation, at the UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies (KQED).
- More on the 30th Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, which concludes today.
- ICYMI: Dartmouth College's new Magna Carta. (Pangram found that no AI was used in its composition.) (Medievalists.net). Republican motherhood and civic education today (WATM). Akhil Reed Amar and Doris Kearns Goodwin at Boston College on the US Constitution (The Heights).
Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.
