The shortlisted books are: Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States, by Edward B. Foley (Oxford University Press). Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, “The Legless Veteran,” by Robert Justin Goldstein (University Press of Kansas). The Great Yazoo Lands Sale: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck, […]
Shortlist for the Langum Prize in American Legal History and Biography Announced
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Call for Papers – 2017 ASLH Annual Meeting
The 2017 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from October 26 – October 29, 2017. The Program Committee invites proposals on any facet or period of legal history, anywhere in the world. We also strongly encourage thematic proposals that traverse traditional chronological or geographical fields. […]
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Law and History Review will have new editor; details for applicants
After over five years of exceptional service, Elizabeth Dale is stepping down as editor of the Law & History Review, which is sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and published by the Cambridge University Press. The ASLH Publications Committee invites applications for the position. Applicants should be members of the Society who are […]
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2017 ASLH Annual Meeting – Las Vegas, Nevada
For the first time in the Society’s history, the 2017 annual meeting will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting will be held from October 26, 2017 to October 29, 2017, and its principal sponsor is the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law. The Plenary Lecture will be delivered by Tomiko Brown-Nagin […]
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Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars: Call for Papers, 2017
Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to young legal historians, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers. At the annual meeting of the Society two early career legal historians […]
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Student Research Colloquium announced
The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26, 2017, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SRC enables a small number of Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and law review articles with distinguished […]
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CFP: “Many 14th Amendments” Conference
The University of Miami will be hosting a wide-ranging symposium entitled “The Many Fourteenth Amendments” to mark the sesquicentennial. The symposium will be held on March 1-3, 2018 in Miami (Coral Gables more specifically). The announcement with more details may be found here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/180031/cfp-many-fourteenth-amendments. Paper proposals are currently being solicited and the deadline is September […]
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CFP: ESCLH Conference, June 2018
Laws Across Codes and Laws Decoded 28 June – 30 June 2018 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) The Organising Committee of the 5th Biennal Conference and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming conference to be held. The main theme picks […]
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ASLH 2017 Election Now Underway
The annual ASLH election is now in progress. From August 15 to September 15, members in good standing of the ASLH will be voting for 3 elections (president-elect, board of directors, nominating committee). The ballots are emailed to the email address associated with the subscription established by the member with the Cambridge University Press when […]
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2017 ASLH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
A preliminary program for the 2017 ASLH Annual Meeting is now available. The meeting will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada October 25 -29, 2017. See the preliminary program here. Those planning to attend the meeting are encouraged to register and book hotel accommodation soon as space is limited. The ASLH strongly encourages participants to book into […]
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ASLH Pre-Conference Symposium: From Dissertation to Book: Introductions and Intellectual Calling Cards
October 26, 2017 – October 26, 2017 Beverly Rogers Law and Literature Building Map and Directions | Register Description: The transformation of the dissertation into a book requires writerly muscles that may have atrophied during the argumentative training camp of graduate school: chucking jargon, eschewing detailed historiographical debate, and, frequently, rounds of uncomfortable editing. By […]
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2017 Annual Meeting Pre-Registration and Discounted Hotel Booking will Close Soon
Pre-registration and discounted hotel booking for the 2017 ASLH Annual Meeting will not be available after October 4, 2017. On-site registration will be considerably more expensive. The meeting will be held from October 26, 2017 to October 29, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the meeting hotel is the Red Rock Casino Resort Spa. The […]
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CFP: “Many 14th Amendments” Conference
The University of Miami will be hosting a wide-ranging symposium entitled “The Many Fourteenth Amendments” to mark the sesquicentennial. The symposium will be held on March 1-3, 2018 in Miami (Coral Gables more specifically). The announcement with more details may be found here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/180031/cfp-many-fourteenth-amendments. Paper proposals are currently being solicited and the deadline is September […]
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CFP: ESCLH Conference, June 2018
Laws Across Codes and Laws Decoded 28 June – 30 June 2018 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) The Organising Committee of the 5th Biennal Conference and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming conference to be held. The main theme picks […]
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William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes; the Travails and Contradictions of Progressivism within the Law: 1908-1941
The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce another seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty: William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes; the Travails and Contradictions of Progressivism within the Law: 1908-1941 Instructors: Daniel R. Ernst is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught since 1988. He is […]
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Call for Submissions: Peter Gonville Stein book prize
The American Society for Legal History announces the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, to be presented annually for the best book in legal history written in English. This award is designed to recognize and encourage the further growth of fine work in legal history that focuses on all non-US regions, as well as global and […]
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Call for Participants: 2018 Student Research Colloquium
The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars. This year, the […]
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CFP: Legal and Institutional Translation Policies
Leuven University (Belgium) is organizing a conference on the use of translation in public legal and administrative institutions, in the past and present. They would like to attract researchers from a variety of fields, including legal history, and are encouraging legal historians to consider applying to participate. The deadline for abstracts is February 1 2018. […]
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Post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University
Northwestern University’s Center for Legal Studies invites applications from outstanding candidates for a full-time, two-year, non-renewable teaching and research post-doctoral fellowship beginning fall 2018. The purpose of the fellowship is to recognize and support original interdisciplinary research and teaching in the study of law and inequality in race, crime, policing, mass incarceration, civil rights, and […]
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2018 ASLH Annual Meeting Pre-registration is Now Available
The American Society for Legal History will be having its 48th annual meeting in Houston, Texas from November 8 -11, 2018. The meeting hotel is the Hilton-Américas, and the meeting is being sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and the University of Houston. Pre-registration is now available.
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