Weekend Roundup

• Alison LaCroix on using history to advise the University of Chicago 's graduating class (Chicago Maroon).

• A notice of "Law and the Paranormal: A Critical Perspective on Legal Rationality," a doctoral thesis submitted to Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge by Andrew Michael Sagar , in 2023, "traces how English law transformed its treatment of witchcraft, astrology, spiritual mediumship, and fortune-telling from crimes of supernatural harm into issues of fraud, commerce, and consumer regulation" (USAHerald).

• An appreciation of Tay-sheng Wang 's Introduction to Taiwan’s Legal History by Shih-An Wang , Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kobe University (Taiwan Insight).

• New in Gale's "Making of Modern Law" series, British Colonial Law: Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations from the Colonies, 1643–1900.

• The webinar "Making the Founding Documents Relevant in the 21st Century" will take place on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, commencing 1:30 PM (ET). The panelists will be Paul Carrese, Arizona State University (moderator); Roosevelt Montás, Bard College ; Jeremy Bailey, University of Florida ; and Jocelyn Evans, University of West Florida. Register here (PSNow).

• SHEAR's "Civics Exchange" "connects you with members of the Society for Historians of the Early Republic (SHEAR) who can speak to your organization, club, or institution about the history that has shaped our civic institutions and civic culture, and the relationship of the past to our present-day civic institutions and civic life."

• From In These Times: "Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi, a Working-Class Hero" (and a major figure in 20th c. legal history).

• An event of interest, on June 6: historian and archivist Daniel F. Gosling (UK National Archives) is offering an online intro to early modern legal records. (more)

• Lawbook Exchange 's May 2026 list of Scholarly Law and Legal History.

• ICYMI: The history of Supreme Court leaks (SCOTUSblog). What Jefferson and Madison would have thought about "rededicating" the US to God (The Conversation). Hunting, Poaching & The American Revolution (New York Almanack).

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