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"textContent": " * Over at JOTWELL, we've noticed several reviews of interest: **Maya Manian**(American University Washington College of Law) wrote about **Aziza Ahmed** 's Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS (2025); **Martha Ertman**(University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) reviewed **Dorothy Brown** , Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past****(2026); **Jedidiah Kroncke**(University of Hong Kong) spotlighted **María E. Montoya** 's A Workplace of Their Own: Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor's Battle Over Industrial Democracy (2026).\n\n\n * The _California Law Review_ 's podcast has posted an episode on **Michael Banerjee** 's \"What Harvard’s Lawsuit Should Have Said\" (published in the journal's online companion in August 2025).\n\n\n * On the history-of-higher-ed theme, Banerjee also alerted us to this interesting _Portland Press Herald_ article, on \"How Maine’s elite private colleges sold Wabanaki land to bankroll early construction.\"\n\n\n * **Vicki Jackson, HLS** , delivered the 2026 Malyi Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School on “Knowledge Institutions and Constitutional Democracy.”\n\n\n * **Jack Rakove** will speak on Theory of Constitutional Failure: The American Case at Notre Dame Law on Friday, April 24, 2026, from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm.\n\n\n * Congratulations to **Kunal Parker, Miami Law** , on his selection as Beatrice Webb Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics!\n\n\n * And congratulations to **Edward J. Balleisen** , the new Provost of **George Washington University**! (GW Today)\n\n\n * **Nathan Dorn** on Lodovico Carerio: Heresy, Lawbooks, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Naples (In Custodia Legis).\n\n\n * **Haris A. Durrani** , a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University, has published Engineering the Law: The Complicated Legal History of a Satellite in the American Historical Association's _Perspectives on History._\n\n\n * \"The 1874 Arkansas Constitution and records from the convention that produced it are now available online through a collaboration between the University of Arkansas Libraries and the Quill Project at the University of Oxford\" (Arkansas News)\n\n\n * **Lawbook Exchange** 's April catalogue of Scholarly Law and Legal History.\n\n\n * The **National Constitution Center** has announced the opening on May 15 of \"Governing the Nation, a new permanent gallery exploring the Constitution’s system of separated powers.\" Its development was guided by \"a distinguished scholarly advisory board representing leading universities and research institutions, ensuring a rigorous and balanced exploration of the separation of powers and federalism,\" including **H. W. Brands, Cristina Rodríguez, Yuval Levin, Michael Klarman, Gail Heriot** , and**Ilan Wurman**.\n\n\n * **Deborah Rosen** reviews **Andrew Fede** 's _A Degraded Caste of Society_ in the _Journal of Southern History_.\n\n\n * **That E.O. on the PRA** : The **American Historical Association** and American Oversight file suit (CBS News). The Trump Administration Is Trying to Erase Its Own History (Atlantic Daily). **Joyce Vance** with the court filing (Civil Discourse). The AHA's notice of the lawsuit.\n\n\n * **More on Birthright Citizenship** : **Steve Vladeck, Georgetown Law** , on the \"pitched battle within the legal academy over the fairly transparent efforts of a small cohort of right-wing law professors to provide a fig leaf of historical support for the Trump administration’s legally and morally odious position in the birthright citizenship case\" (One First). **Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law** , on Allegiance, Birthright, and Citizenship (Law & Liberty). For a brief time only, you may read, open access, the introduction to **Anna O. Law** 's _Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship_ , here.\n\n\n * ICYMI: In the **National Constitution Center** 's series, \"Constitutional Voices\": W.E.B Du Bois and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. **Kevin Krus** e rethinks the Civil Rights Movement (Campaign Trails).\n\n\n\nWeekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.",
"title": "Weekend Roundup",
"updatedAt": "2026-04-11T04:30:00.111Z"
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