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Legal History Blog [Unofficial] March 28, 2026
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  • "The Selden Society regularly funds a Milsom Studentship for a person undertaking research in English legal history leading to the degree of PhD (or equivalent) at a university in the United Kingdom."

  • A review of Geoffrey Samuel 's Principia Iuris: A Historical and Comparative Introduction to the English Law (Edward Elgar Publishing) (Law Society Gazette).

  • A review of James Hart 's The U.S. Supreme Court in American Society: Historical Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing) (Law Society Gazette).

  • Washington University-St. Louis Law invited UCLA 's Stuart Banner back to lecture on his history of the US Supreme Court (Student Life).

  • On Tuesday, April 28, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Department with support from the Historical Society of the New York Courts, will sponsor a talk on The Constitution’s Framers: What They Teach us about Making America Better, by John D. Feerick , Norris Professor of Law, Fordham Law School Dean Emeritus, and a panel discussion with William M. Treanor, Dean Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center and Fordham Law School and John Rogan, Senior Fellow, Fordham Law School. Register here.

  • Jill Hasday , Minnesota Law , discusses We the Men on the Infinite Women podcast.

  • A fully funded four-year Collaborative Doctoral Studentship at the University of Leeds on The Making of the National Archive: The First Century of the Public Record Office.

  • Over at Balkinization, a symposium is underway of Stephen Skowronek 's The Adaptability Paradox. Several legal historians are slate to contribute.

  • The National Constitution Center has posted the recording of its Town Hall on Women and the American Revolution with Mary Beth Norton , the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita of American History at Cornell University , and Rosemarie Zagarri , distinguished university professor of history at George Mason University.

  • ICYMI: Back to the archives to defend reproductive rights (Ms. Magazine). A dispatch from the new "civic education" (University of Colorado-Boulder). New York's woman lawyers (NYSBA). Michael R. Dreeben revisits Robert Jackson’s "The Federal Prosecutor" (HLR).

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

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