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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-09T04:30:00.034Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Harvard Law Bulletin",
    "welcomes",
    "AHA Perspectives",
    "The Last Minute",
    "the Pulitzer Prize in History",
    "not wholly persuaded",
    "Stanford Daily",
    "Michigan Law",
    "Academic Paper Workshops",
    "National Gallery of Art",
    "A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires"
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  "textContent": "  * \"On the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, Harvard Law historian and legal scholar **Bruce H. Mann** argues that colonists were fighting to uphold English common law rights and traditions\" (Harvard Law Bulletin).\n\n\n  * The **Penn Carey Law School** welcomes **Christian Burset** to its faculty.\n\n\n  * An appreciation of the late **John R Wunder** (AHA Perspectives) .\n\n\n  * After appearing in \"The Last Minute\" segment of CBS's \"60 Minutes,\" **Jill Lepore** wins the Pulitzer Prize in History for _We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution_. The _National Review_ is not wholly persuaded.\n\n\n  * A notice of **Stanford** ’s “America at 250,” one-unit course, cross-listed in the History and American Studies departments and the Law School. It is “an exploration of where America has been, and based on that, where it might be going or might need to go,” according to **Jonathan Gienepp** , who is one of its instructors, with **Pamela Karlan** (Stanford Daily).\n\n\n  * A Q&A with **Len Niehoff** about his new book,  _Meeting Shakespeare at the Bar: Reading the Bard Through the Lens of the Law_ (American Bar Association, 2026) (Michigan Law).\n\n\n  * On Thursday, May 7, **Christine Chabot, Jane Manners** and **Lev Menand** presented papers on removal, with a comment **Nick Parrillo** , in one of the Academic Paper Workshops at the Spring conference of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association.\"\n\n\n  * \"**Alex Votta** recently received **Michigan Law** ’s Dimond Prize for his paper “The Great Rampart in Protecting Human Liberty: The Right to Education in Antebellum and Reconstruction Black Constitutional Consciousness.” He credits **Sam Erman** , **Rebecca Scott** et al. (Michigan Law).\n\n\n  * The subsequent lives of the subjects of **Dorothea Lange** 's Depression-era photographs (National Gallery of Art).\n\n\n  * From the _New York Times_ : \"A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires\" (**_Buckley v. Valeo_**).\n\n\n\nWeekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.",
  "title": "Weekend Roundup",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-09T04:30:00.511Z"
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