News & Announcements

February 10, 2017

Shortlist for the Langum Prize in American Legal History and Biography Announced

The shortlisted books are:

Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States, by Edward B. Foley (Oxford University Press).

Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, “The Legless Veteran,” by Robert Justin Goldstein (University Press of Kansas).

The Great Yazoo Lands Sale: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck, by Charles F. Hobson (University Press of Kansas).

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s, by Risa Goluboff (Oxford University Press).

The final decision will be announced on the Langum Charitable Trust’s website, www.langumtrust.org, in about one month.

September 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 Reading
August 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 Reading
July 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