Things to Read This Week (7/13/26)

some older pieces with a systematic theme

No recently-posted/published things to share this week, but research projects and roundtable conversations pointed me toward a few things of interest.

Coordination, Conflict, and the Laws of Time, by Hamilton and Hemel. More on this from me, from a constitutional perspective, coming this fall.

Henry Martyn Robert and the Popularization of American Parliamentary Law, by Don Doyle — via JStory only, as it’s in 32 Am. Q. 3 (1980), but this is the fascinating story of the “Robert” behind Robert’s Rules of Order. Via my colleague Saul Levmore, who has (as always) written a paper on this.

This led me down the rabbit hole to A Law Professor’s Guide to Parliamentary Procedure, by Jonathan R. Siegel — both a study of the unwritten parliamentary principles of faculty meetings and a handy guide, including the case against “friendly” amendments.