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November 27, 2019

2019 Annual Meeting Recap

Famously nicknamed “the hub of the solar system” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston has served over the centuries as a center of legal events and controversies that have shaped American legal history. The ASLH was delighted to return to Boston for its 2019 annual meeting, which was held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel from November 21, 2019 to November 23, 2019.

Program committee chairs Daniel Sharfstein and Michelle McKinley organized 48 panel sessions and 12 author-meets-reader sessions in addition to a number of pre-conference workshops. We were joined by 441 registered participants.

The meeting was sponsored by Harvard Law School and Boston University Law School, and the Plenary Lecture was delivered by Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School.

As always, the ASLH was delighted to recognize exceptional scholarship in legal history and service to the Society by awarding a number of prizes, honors, and fellowships at our annual luncheon. Read more about our wonderful prize and fellowship winners here. And check out photographs of the proceedings below!

President Sarah Barringer Gordon opens the annual awards luncheon

Gregory Mark, William Wiecek, and Jennifer Lowe

Khaled Fahmy, Mina Khalil, and Binyamin Blum

Standing: Felcity Turner, Kimberly Welch, Anne Twitty, Jonathan Gienapp, Signe Fourmy; Seated: Allison Madar, Cory James Young and Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan

REN Chao, Hardeep Dhillon, and Mary Ann Vallianatos

Jasmine Wang and Lucas Chalhoub

Emily Prifogle, Angela Fernandez, Carolina Gonzalez, and Michelle McKinley

Maeva Marcus, Avi Soifer, and Vicky Woeste

Catherine Fisk, Deborah Dinner, and Kristin Collins

Alexander Cors, Rowin Dorin

Andrew Walker, Ana Silva, Sueann Caulfield, and Cassia Roth

Rabiat Akande, Robert Baker, and Anthony Idigbe

Serena Mayeri, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Lauren Benton, Sophia Lee, Shaun Ossei-Owusu, and Karen Tani

Jean Hébrard, Martha S. Jones, Lauren Feldman, and Elizabeth Thornberry

Bill Nelson

Vice President Lauren Benton and Honorary Fellow Sally Falk Moore

Constance Backhouse memorializes the work of Honorary Fellow David Sugarman

Honorary Fellow David Sugarman

David Sugarman and Constance Backhouse

Bruce Mann recognizes Honorary Fellow Rebecca Scott

Bruce Mann and Rebecca Scott

Bruce Mann honors Craig Joyce Medal recipient Rayman Solomon

Bruce Mann and Rayman Solomon

John D. Gordon recognizes the Cromwell Fellowship recipients

Four of the Cromwell Fellowship recipients: Lael Weinberger, Jose Argueta Funes, Natalie Shibley, and Signe Fourmy

John D. Gordon and Cromwell Book Prize Winner Kimberly M. Welch

Kimberly M. Welch and John D. Gordon

John D. Gordon and Cromwell Article Prize Winner Maggie Blackhawk

John D. Gordon and Maggie Blackhawk

Surrency Article Prize winner Catherine L. Evans and Cornelia Dayton

David Tanenhaus presenting Cynthia Nicoletti with an inaugural Dudziak Prize for The Scottish Court of Sessions Digital Archive

David Tanenhaus presenting Katrina Jagodinsky with an inaugural Dudziak Prize for O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law and Family

Michael Lobban awards the Sutherland Prize

Matthew Mirow awarding the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award to Khaled Fahmy

Khaled Fahmy and Matthew Mirrow

Peter Gonville Stein Book Award Honorable Mention Rohit De and Matthew Mirow

Laura Edwards

John Phillip Reid Book Prize Winner Martha S. Jones and Laura Edwards

John Phillip Reid Book Prize Winner Martha S. Jones and Laura Edwards

Rebecca Scott

Laura Kalman

Cory James Young

Lauren Benton

Sarah Barringer Gordon

Lauren Benton and Sarah Barringer Gordon

Outgoing ASLH President Sarah Barringer Gordon transfers the gavel to incoming ASLH President Lauren Benton.