With support of the American Society for Legal History, researchers of the project ‘Global Legal History on the Ground’ (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) have published a video series and a bibliography on ‘Court Cases and the Writing of African History’. Read the rest
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ASLH and NACBS
This year, the ASLH Annual Meeting will coincide with the meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, who will be meeting on the same premises. In the spirit of generosity, both organizations have agreed to allow reciprocity to scholars attending the other meeting. Read the rest
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Congratulations to our 2022 Prize Winners!
The John Phillip Reid Book Award
Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021). Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done uncovers the long arc of civil rights activism in the North, showing how it arose as distinct from antislavery activism and laid the intellectual and political foundations for the later emergence of the Fourteenth Amendment. Read the rest
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Congratulations to our 2022 Honorary Fellows
This year we induct 3 new honorary members. Election as an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History is the highest honor the Society can confer. It recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the broad discipline of legal history and influenced the work of others. Read the rest
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ASLH Virtual Book Club
Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2023
We are excited to announce a new virtual initiative: The ASLH Book Club, a monthly event series that will bring together ASLH members to engage virtually with authors about their recently published books.
The Book Club will provide ASLH members the opportunity to gather on a regular basis throughout the year and discuss recently published work. Read the rest
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ASLH Projects and Proposals Grant Recipient: Boston-Area Legal History Colloquium
The Boston-Area Legal History Colloquium (BALHC) held their final meeting on April 15, 2023. The colloquium, co-sponsored by the ASLH, provides the opportunity for graduate students within the Boston area to receive feedback on works-in-progress in a collegial and professional setting, while networking with a variety students and faculty in the field. Read the rest
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Announcing the 2023 Hurst Fellows
The ASLH is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023 Hurst fellowships.
The Hurst fellows will attend the twelfth James Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History. A flagship program of the ASLH, the Hurst also enjoys generous support from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where Willard Hurst taught for many years. Read the rest
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2023 Preyer Award Winners
The ASLH is pleased to announce this year’s Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars. They are:
Tamar Menashe (Emory), “A Person of the Imperial Supreme Court: Jewish Litigation in Speyer and the Struggle to Belong”
Rebecca Horwitz-Willis (Harvard), “‘Educating a Class of Unfortunates:’ Crime Control, Child Protection, and the Compulsory School Movement, 1888 – 1903“
Named after the late Kathryn T. Read the rest
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Conference Resource Team for the 2023 Annual Meeting
We seek to ensure that all participants in the ASLH annual conference conform to appropriate and approved norms of professional conduct in a context free from harassment and discrimination. We affirm our commitment to maintaining an atmosphere conducive to the collegial and open exchange of scholarly viewpoints and information. Read the rest
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Congratulations to the 2023 Book and Article Prize Winners!
Please join the ASLH in offering our congratulations to this year’s prize winners, in thanking the prize committees for their work, and in appreciating the generosity of the people and organizations who have generously funded them.
Cromwell Article Prize
Emilie Connolly, “Fiduciary Colonialism: Annuities and Native Dispossession in Early America,” American Historical Review 127:1 (2022): 223-253. Read the rest
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2023 Election Results
At the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, ASLH President Michael Willrich announced the result of the Annual Election. Please join us in congratulating these newly elected members, and thanking them for their service!
President Elect: Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin)
Nominating Committee Member: Susanna Blumenthal (University of Minnesota)
Board Members: Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia)
Daniel Ernst (Georgetown University)
Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard University)
Amalia Kessler (Stanford University)
Anne Twitty (Stanford University)
We also offer our thanks to the Nominating Committee (John Wertheimer, Co-chair; Lyndsay Campbell, Co-Chair; Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Sophia Lee, and Ada Maria Kuskowsk) for their hard work in nominating a remarkable slate of candidates. Read the rest
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ASLH (Virtual) Book Club: New Member Page
We now have a new members-only page through which you can access Zoom links for live book club events, as well as available recordings of earlier events. Read the rest
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