Sunday Roundup

• Aziz Rana, Boston College , will discuss his book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them , as the 21st Annual Pro Lecture in Legal History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,  on Monday, February 23, 2026, 12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m. in the Thomas & Mack Moot Court Building.

• Orville Vernon Burton will deliver “The First Amendment and Lincoln’s Constitutional Legacy” in the Clemson University Humanities Hub's annual Lectures in Law and Humanities Series on March 5 at 5:00 p.m. on the Watt Auditorium.

• The University of St. Thomas 's notice of Anthony M. Joseph 's amicus brief in Chiles v. Salazar on the history of medical licensing in the United States.

• Adam Feldman on How academic briefs shape Supreme Court decisions (SCOTUSblog).

--Dan Ernst