Sunday Roundup

• The legal historian David Langum has died. He was a professor or research professor at the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University as a professor of law from 1985 until his death. His publications include the Hurst Prize-winning Law and Community on the Mexican-California Frontier: Anglo-American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821-1846 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987) and Crossing Over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act (University of Chicago Press, 1994). More.

• The Hoover Institution's Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosts "Historical Thinking and Democratic Citizenship" with Mary Clark, Suzanne Marchand, Jeffrey Collins , and Jonathan Gienapp on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, from 9:00–10:00 a.m. PT.

• The recent turn in the originalism wars has moved Dan Farbman, BC Law , to "an Emersonian polemic."

• On Sunday, April 19, 2026, from 2-4 pm, Michael Ross, University of Maryland , will lecture on “The Constitution They Argued Over: Power, Democracy, and Compromise in 1787” at the historic Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern, 73 Monument Place, Heathsville, Maryland (RealRadio).

• Stephen Lubet , Northwestern Law , on John Brown's Trial and Birthright Citizenship (Slate).

• A review of James Q. Whitman 's From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World by Jane Webster, Newcastle University (BHR).

--Dan Ernst