Virtual Working Group
Roundtable on Radical Legal Advocacy (a reading, writing, and discussion group)
Learn MoreAnnouncing the 2024 Book Prize Winners
Please join us in celebrating a rich year of scholarship
Learn MoreAnnouncing the 2023 Book and Article Prize Winners
Please join us in celebrating an amazing year of scholarship!
Learn MoreAnnouncing the 2023 Hurst Fellows
Read more about this year's fellows and the Hurst institute
Learn More2021 ASLH Prize Winners and Honorees
We are absolutely delighted to announce the Society's 2021 prize winners and honorees.
Learn More2021 ASLH Election Results
The ASLH has recently elected a new president-elect, new board members, and new nominating committee members.
Learn MoreNew ASLH Fellowships
The ASLH has created new fellowships honoring distinguished scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of legal history.
Learn MoreUpcoming 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.
Learn MoreWallace 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.
Learn MoreHurst 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.
Learn MoreAwards
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.
Learn MorePublications
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.
Learn MoreOur Upcoming Conference —
Detroit, MI
November 13–15, 2025
Latest News
View all NewsSeptember 25, 2025
New Works in Legal History: Displays at the Detroit Meeting
New Works in Legal History: Many legal historians publish books with presses that are not represented at the conference book sale. In recognition of this fact, the ASLH will host a table to showcase this important new research at the Detroit book exhibit. If you published a book recently… Keep ReadingSeptember 9, 2025
Projects & Proposals Funding Deadline Extended
The ASLH is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for Projects and Proposals funding until 9/18. The goal of P&P is the “funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical scholarship and in the communication of legal history to all its possible publics… Keep ReadingAugust 8, 2025
ASLH Election 2025: Candidate Bios
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Michelle McKinley I am a legal historian of slavery in the early modern Iberian empire, and the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon Law School. I have been an active and committed member of the ASLH since I first attended the conference in… Keep ReadingJuly 30, 2025
Virtual Working Group: Environment, History and Law Global Workshop Series (reading and writing group)
We are delighted to invite members of the ASLH community to attend the Environment, History and Law Global online workshop series. The triangle ‘environment – history – law’ suggests a wealth of opportunities for productive transdisciplinary scholarship: Historical analysis of environmental law, environmental histories of legal change, legal histories of… Keep Reading
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