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  "textContent": "  * **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.\n\n\n  * 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).\n\n\n  * **Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire** , explains _Wong Kim Ark_ and birthright citizenship on NBC News' \"Here's the Scoop\" (YouTube).\n\n\n  * **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.\n\n\n  * That symposium over at Balkinization on **Stephen Skowronek** 's _The Adaptability Paradox_ is now complete and is available here.\n\n\n  * 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.\n\n\n  * **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.\"\n\n\n  * **John O. McGinnis** reviews _The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History_ by **Mark Peterson** (Law & Liberty).\n\n\n  * ICYMI: Florida’s new history course whitewashes the founders on slavery (Salon)\n\n\n\nWeekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.",
  "title": "Weekend Roundup",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-16T04:30:00.113Z"
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