TheAmerican Society for Legal History

Early Career Global Legal History Fellowships

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Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series 2025

Applications due June 30

ASLH Early Career Virtual Legal History Workshop

Applications due June 30

ASLH Honorary Fellows 2024

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Hurst Institute 2025: Applications Open

Applications Due January 15

Announcing the 2024 Book Prize Winners

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Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series

Announcing the 2023 Book and Article Prize Winners

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Announcing the 2023 Preyer Scholars

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Announcing the 2023 Hurst Fellows

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Congratulations to our 2022 Prize winners!

Honorary Fellows of the ASLH - 2022

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2021 ASLH Prize Winners and Honorees

We are absolutely delighted to announce the Society's 2021 prize winners and honorees.

2021 ASLH Election Results

The ASLH has recently elected a new president-elect, new board members, and new nominating committee members.

New ASLH Fellowships

The ASLH has created new fellowships honoring distinguished scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of legal history.

Upcoming Conference — New Orleans, November 4-6, 2021

Please join us at the InterContinental Hotel, steps away from the historic French Quarter and the riverfront. The complete program and information on vaccination and social distancing measures are now available.

Wallace Johnson First Book Program

The Wallace Johnson First Book Program brings together 6 first book authors in even-numbered years. The program meets throughout the year, first at the ASLH Annual Meeting, and then both virtually and in person over the next 12 months, culminating in a lightning round session at the following annual meeting. The next Johnson Program will be held in 2022.

Hurst Summer Institute

The Hurst Summer Institute is a two-week gathering of 12 early career scholars held biennially in June of odd-numbered years. The Hurst is convened by a well-known senior legal historian and is designed to provide a supportive and substantive environment for those at the outset of their careers as legal historians. The next Hurst will be held in Madison, Wisconsin in June 2021.

Awards

ASLH supports members and the broader field of legal history in many ways. The Society offers a number of dissertation, book, and article prizes, as well as research grants for early career scholars. Many of these awards are made through the generosity of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation; others are funded by members’ donations and dedicated funds. ASLH also provides limited start-up funding for new or early stage ventures in legal history for up to three years.

Publications

ASLH sponsors the Law and History Review (LHR), a quarterly peer-reviewed journal and accompanying online venue, The Docket. The editor-in-chief of LHR is Gautham Rao. The official book series of the Society, Studies in Legal History (SLH), publishes monographs in collaboration with Cambridge University Press. Editors of SLH are Holly Brewer, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Michael Lobban, and Reuel Schiller.