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December 9, 2019

Call for Applications: Student Research Colloquium

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) will host its seventh annual Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 11, and Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. The SRC annually invites eight graduate students to the site of the ASLH’s annual meeting to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles, under the guidance of distinguished, ASLH-affiliated scholars.

Target applicants include early-post-coursework Ph.D. students and historically minded law students.  Students working in all chronological periods, including ancient and medieval history, and all geographical fields, including Nonwestern ones, are encouraged to apply, as are students who have not yet received any formal training in legal history. The SRC seeks to introduce participating students to legal history, to each other and to the legal-historical scholarly community. Applicants who have not yet had an opportunity to present their work to the ASLH are particularly encouraged to apply.  A student may be on the program for the annual meeting and participate in the SRC in the same year.

Each participating student will pre-circulate a twenty-page, double-spaced, footnoted paper to the entire group.  The group will discuss these papers at the colloquium, under the guidance of ASLH-affiliated faculty directors.

The ASLH will provide at least partial and, in most cases, total reimbursement for travel, hotel, and conference-registration costs.

If you are interested, please electronically submit the following items to John Wertheimer at: srcproposals@aslh.net:

    • a cover letter describing, among other things, how far along you are and how many years remain in your course of study;
    • a CV;
    • a two-page, single-spaced “research statement” that begins with a title and proceeds to describe the in-progress research project that you propose to present at the colloquium; and
    • a letter of recommendation from a faculty member, sent separately from the other materials.

The application deadline is June 15, 2020. Applicants will be notified by Aug. 1, 2020.

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