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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!

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