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    "alarming opinion",
    "here",
    "a history of a law school",
    "Here",
    "Legal Education at the University of Virginia: Tradition and Transformation",
    "American Prospect",
    "Chiles v. Salazar",
    "Slavery, Freedom, Race, and the Law in the Americas",
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    "a roundtable",
    "Oyez",
    "Material Foundations of American Constitutional Development",
    "One Person, One Vote? The Gap between Representative Equity and Mathematical Equality after Baker v. Carr",
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    "CBS Chicago",
    "Balkinization",
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  "textContent": "  * An alarming opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice advising White House Counsel that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. WaPo's story is here.\n\n\n\n  * Having written about two thirds of a history of a law school, word of a new contribution to the genre always intrigues me. Here's a notice of Legal Education at the University of Virginia: Tradition and Transformation (University of Virginia Press). DRE\n\n\n  * In the American Prospect: **Felicia Kornbluh** (University of Vermont) writes about the Supreme Court's recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar (involving a Colorado ban on \"conversion therapy\"). The piece also quotes legal historian **Marie-Amélie George** (Wake Forest University Law School).\n\n\n  * Via Brian Rosenwald: \"**Made by History** \" has a new home. Going forward, it will partner with the _Philadelphia Inquirer_. New pitch email: madebyhistory@inquirer.com.\n\n\n  * On Friday, April 10, **Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University** , will deliver the sixteenth annual Presidential Lecture at Tufts University on Slavery, Freedom, Race, and the Law in the Americas. The lecture will be based on his and Ariela J. Gross’s book, _Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana_(THR).\n\n\n  * Over at Divided Argument, **William Baude** hosts a roundtable with **Christian Burset, Jonathan Green** , and **Ryan Snyder** on their recent articles, which Baude describes as some of the best contributions to a \"recent round of scholarship on history and tradition in legal interpretation.\"\n\n\n  * And over at _Modern American History_ , **Sarah Seo** hosts a roundtable of historians to discuss \"the benefits of and challenges to translating historical scholarship for a legal audience.\" With **Laura Edwards, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Samuel Erman, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Maggie Blackhawk** and **Ned Blackhawk**.\n\n\n  * **G. Edward White** discovers who pranked the U.S. Supreme Court \"by filing a phony cert petition challenging an absurd DC noise ordinance\" (Oyez).\n\n\n  * That symposium over at Balkinization on **Stephen Skowrone** k's  _Adaptability Paradox_ continues, with, among other contributions, **Jeremy Kessler** 's Material Foundations of American Constitutional Development.\n\n\n  * The latest issue of the _Journal of American History_ includes several articles of interest to legal historians, including One Person, One Vote? The Gap between Representative Equity and Mathematical Equality after Baker v. Carr, by **Alma Steingart** , which shows how \"litigants, Supreme Court justices, judges, and mathematical experts struggled to align the theoretical concept of political representation with mathematical notions of equality\" in the malapportionment cases of the 1960s.\n\n\n  * The NYT review of **Mark Peterson** 's _The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History_ (Princeton University Press) and a blog post by the author.\n\n\n  * The April 2026 newsletter of the **Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit** is here.\n\n\n\n  * More on Birthright Citizenship. **John Yoo** says that it has a long historical precedent (AEI). **Kate Masur** \"Fact-Checks President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order\" (CBS Chicago). **John Mikhail** on Jurisdiction, Domicile, and the _Ratio Decidendi_ of _Wong Kim Ark_ (Balkinization). Yet another dispatch from the war between the law professors on the history of the citizenship clause. (Courthouse News Service). And has the distance between law professor Bluesky and NYT opinion page ever been shorter?\n\n\n  * ICYMI: A new book on Sarah Keys Evans, \"The Black Veteran Who Desegregated Interstate Buses\" (Mother Jones). **Tom Lee** on the Declaration of Independence at 250 (Fordham Law). A Century of Colonial Tariffs (LPE Project). High school students explore Münster’s legal history (Universität Münster).\n\n\n\nWeekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.",
  "title": "Weekend Roundup",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-04T04:30:00.118Z"
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