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April 28, 2025

Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop

ASLH Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop

Deadline for Applications:  June 30, 2025

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop is designed to provide support and intellectual community to early career scholars working in legal history, broadly defined.

Applications are invited from early career scholars, publishing in English, who have completed PhDs or JDs (those working toward a JD/PhD must have completed the PhD), and are working on their first major monograph or research project.  We encourage applications from scholars with expertise in all chronological periods and geographical fields, both within and outside the United States, as well as from those who may not (yet) identify as legal historians.

The committee (the ASLH Committee on Digital Programming) will select seven (7) Fellows for the 2025-26 workshop. The workshop will be limited to the Fellows and Faculty Chairs and will meet once monthly via Zoom from September through April (no meeting in November because of the Annual Meeting) giving each fellow an opportunity to share work-in-progress with the group for discussion and feedback.  The 2025-26 Early Career LHW will be chaired by Hendrik (Dirk) Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus; Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University, and Michelle McKinley, Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law, University of Oregon. The date and time of the monthly workshops will be established by the Faculty Chairs. Fellows must commit to participate for the full academic year.

Elements of Application

(1) Cover Letter (1 page) (the cover letter should address the following points: briefly describe your research and path to the project, note the intended result (book/article/other) and the stage of the project, explain your interest in being part of the 2025-26 workshop, and note your time zone (UTC) and range of flexibility for meeting.  Though time zones present a challenge, one of the goals of the ASLH’s virtual initiatives is to increase opportunities for engagement between international and U. S. based scholars);

(2) Curriculum Vitae (1 page) (including education and degree dates, current appointment, publications and conference papers, and professional society affiliations);

(3) Title and Abstract for what you plan to share (draft article, book chapter, book proposal)(up to 100 words);

(4) 1 Letter of Recommendation (the letter should be from someone who knows you and your work well and who can comment on how you would benefit from and contribute to the workshop community).

Applicants should submit items 1-3 in a single pdf.  And arrange to have the letter of recommendation submitted directly.

Please direct Questions & Submissions to: Jonathan Connolly, jsc1@uic.edu

Application Deadline: June 30, 2025.  Only complete applications will be considered.