Weekend Roundup

• Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln , will be addressing the Department ofHistory and School of Law at the University of Oregon on May 19, from 3:30-5:00 on "Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924," based on her Mellon-funded, NSF supported digital initiative on U.S. Law and Race.

• We have two reports of Maggie Blackhawk 's discussion at Dartmouth College on May 6 of "the centrality of American colonialism and Native American history to legal understandings of the United States Constitution (The Dartmouth; Dartmouth News).

• Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire , explains Wong Kim Ark and birthright citizenship on NBC News' "Here's the Scoop" (YouTube).

• Rebecca Tushnet 's 2025 Nies Lecture on Intellectual Property at Marquette Law School, entitled “History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases” is here.

• That symposium over at Balkinization on Stephen Skowronek 's The Adaptability Paradox is now complete and is available here.

• More on the litigation over the executive order curtailing the Presidential Records Act: Jonathan Shaub scores the government lawyers who defended the executive order (Lawfare). The American Historical Association explains a recent hearing in the dispute.

• Michael C. Blumm, Lewis and Clark Law Schoo l, has posted the preface, table of contents, and first chapter of the second edition of his West Nutshell, A Brief American Legal History , which surveys "American legal history from the Colonial Era to the Trump administration, including an extensive chapter on the first six months of the second Trump administration."

• John O. McGinnis reviews The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History by Mark Peterson (Law & Liberty).

• ICYMI: Florida’s new history course whitewashes the founders on slavery (Salon)

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