About ASLH

The American Society for Legal History was founded in 1956 to foster interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the broad field of legal history.  Although based in the United States, its purview and membership are international in scope.

The Society sponsors a quarterly journal, Law and History Review, and a book series, Studies in Legal History, both of which are published for the Society by Cambridge University Press. The Society holds its Annual Meeting each fall. The meeting is an opportunity for historians, law professors, graduate students, lawyers, and judges from around the world to gather and meet fellow travelers and to present and discuss their scholarship. At the meeting, the Society confers a number of prizes and research fellowships to recognize the best recent scholarship in the field and to encourage promising younger scholars. The Society also hosts a vibrant series of pre-conference sessions, which allow scholars to probe particular topics in greater depth. We work both with other scholarly societies and with our members to make such programs integral to the field, and productive of ongoing research and discussion. The American Society for Legal History is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization.

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For general information about the Society write:

Professor Ari Bryen
Secretary, American Society for Legal History
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