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The Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, sponsored by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH), is designed to provide advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will learn about approaching and working with publishers, and will develop and revise a book proposal and one to two sample chapters.

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CREATING A SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE PROPOSAL Barbara Y. Welke, Distinguished McKnight University Professor & Professor of History and Law, University of Minnesota and Kenneth Ledford, Associate Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University 2010 ASLH Program Committee Co-Chairs Updated by Sophia Z.

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In 2021, the ASLH Meeting is headed to New Orleans! The conference will be held at the InterContinental Hotel, just steps away from the historic French Quarter and the riverfront. We look forward to seeing you all there!

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Barbara Y. Welke, Distinguished McKnight University Professor & Professor of History and Law, University of Minnesota and Kenneth Ledford, Associate Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University 2010 ASLH Program Committee Co-Chairs Updated by Sophia Z. Lee, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania and Fahad Ahmad Bishara, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia 2022 ASLH Program Committee Co-Chairs In 2008, Linda Kerber published three short articles titled “Conference Rules” that offered sage advice on presenting a paper, commenting, and chairing. 

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The Society was delighted to elect three new Honorary Fellows on November 6, 2021. They are Shaunnagh Dorsett, Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, and Faculty Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington; Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, former Titular Regular Professor of the History of Argentine Law in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina; and James Q.

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Surrency Prize The Surrency Prize, named in honor of Erwin C. Surrency, a founding member and first president of the Society and for many years the editor of its former publication, the American Journal of Legal History, is awarded annually for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review, in the previous year.

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New for 2011: The Society announces a competition for two Paul L. Murphy Awards. See below for details. Surrency Prize The Surrency Prize, named in honor of Erwin C. Surrency, a founding member and first president of the Society and for many years the editor of its former publication, the American Journal of Legal History, is awarded annually for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review, in the previous year.

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Johnson Program for First Book Authors Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2018 The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) announces a new program designed to provide advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined.

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Supporting early-career scholars is among the American Society for Legal History’s top priorities. Well aware that today’s newcomers will be tomorrow’s leaders within the profession, the ASLH works hard to attract, retain, mentor, and otherwise serve graduate students, law students, and early-career professionals.

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  The biennial Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors provides advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, as well as meeting with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.

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The ASLH is dedicated to enriching and expanding the field of legal history across time, around the world, and with a variety of methods. We accomplish this critical task in many different ways. The most important is our Annual Meeting, where scholars from around the world meet to exchange ideas and socialize.

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The 2022 ASLH Annual Meeting will be held at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois. Onsite registration opens on this website and at the registration desk at 12:00pm on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Attendees at pre-conference or conference events will be required to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination or to present proof of a negative Covid-19 test taken no more than 24 hours before their arrival at the conference.

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The recent loss of Jane Scheiber has affected many ASLH members, who admired her smarts, drive, and skill as a scholar and adviser to many legal historians and our Society.  We are grateful to Victoria Woeste, who in consultation with Harry Scheiber and others, has written this tribute.

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The Society will hold its 2016 Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.  The dates of the meeting are Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, October 30, 2016.  Our meeting site will be the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, directly across the street from Union Station (the terminus of a new light-rail line from Pearson International Airport). 

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::  Historians and Access to the Files of Lawyers :: March 7, 1994[1] Organization of American Historians Ad Hoc Committee on Access to Lawyers’ Files Kermit L. Hall (chair) Paul Finkelman N. E. H. Hull Stanley N. Katz Background The Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians (OAR) in September 1991 formed the Ad Hoc Committee on Access to Lawyers’ Files.

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New for 2005: The Society announces the first of competition for Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars and for the John Philip Reid Book Award. See below for details. Surrency Prize The Surrency Prize, named in honor of Erwin C. Surrency, a founding member and first president of the Society and for many years the editor of its former publication, the American Journal of Legal History, is awarded annually for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review, in the previous year.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for the 2017 round of the Public Scholar Program, which is intended to support well-researched books in the humanities that have been conceived and written to reach a broad readership. Books supported through the Public Scholar Program might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic.

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Welcome to Chicago, Legal Historians! In 2022, the annual conference returns to Chicago for the first time since 2001, and pre-registration is now open. We’ll convene November 10-12 at the Chicago Grand Sheraton, and look forward to sharing more details about the meeting as they become available.

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The 2022 ASLH Annual Meeting will be held at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois. The conference room rate is $199.00.  Reserve rooms here: https://book.passkey.com/e/50323773 The ASLH commits to filling a minimum number of rooms and faces heavy penalties if the number falls short.

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Log in to view and update your account The Member Portal gives you access to your membership information, renewals, the latest member news, and open calls for papers. You can RENEW NOW using your existing email address. Questions about how to access your membership account or renew your account should be sent to Chair of the Membership Committee, Professor Holly Brewer.

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About the Book Series This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change.

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The ASLH returned to Washington, DC for its 2015 annual meeting, Thursday, October 29, 2015 to Sunday, Nov 1, 2015. The meeting hotel was the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. The program for the meeting was created by the Program Committee, led by co-chairs, Martha Jones (University of Michigan) and Charlotte Walker-Said (CUNY-John Jay College), with the able assistance of committee members Bethany Berger (University of Connecticut), Omar Cheta (Bard College), Malick Ghachem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), D.

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The Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing seeks to recruit Visiting Faculty from the world’s leading universities and institutions for the 2017-18 academic year. These international scholars and practitioners will engage a highly motivated cohort of future leaders through Schwarzman Scholars’ unique, interdisciplinary curriculum focused on contemporary global issues.

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The American Council of Learned Societies (“ACLS”) is pleased to announce the eighth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program. This initiative places humanities PhDs in substantive roles in diverse nonprofit and government organizations, demonstrating that the knowledge and capacities developed in the course of earning a doctoral degree in the humanities have wide application beyond the academy.

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The American Research Center in Egypt will be announcing its annual fellowship competition on November 1. Its fellowships are open to humanities and social science scholars for research in Egypt on a diverse array of disciplines spanning all periods of Egypt’s history.

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The ASLH is delighted to announce our 2019 prize, honors, and fellowship winners! Cromwell Dissertation Prize Winner: Jonathan Lande, “Disciplining Freedom: U.S. Army Slave Rebels and Emancipation During the Civil War” At least since William Cooper Nell penned The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution in 1855, historians have linked African-American military service with manhood and citizenship.

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Kathryn Conway Preyer (1924-2005), known to her many friends and admirers as “Kitty,” was among the most accomplished legal historians of her generation, as her selection in 1999 as the first woman Honorary Fellow, the ASLH’s highest honor, attests. She also had great generosity of spirit and care for early career scholars.

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The John Phillip Reid Book Award Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021). Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done uncovers the long arc of civil rights activism in the North, showing how it arose as distinct from antislavery activism and laid the intellectual and political foundations for the later emergence of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars.  Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change.

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This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change.

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This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change.

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The John Phillip Reid Book Award is awarded annually for the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in any of the fields defined broadly as Anglo-American legal history. The prize is named for John Phillip Reid, the prolific legal historian and founding member of the Society, and made possible by the generous contributions of his friends and colleagues.

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This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change.

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The History of The Society Project seeks to preserve and provide access information about the history and development of the American Society for Legal History.  The resources housed on the History of The Society Project site include historical lists of officers, board and committee members, as well as documents generated by the ASLH, and new personal histories (both videos and transcripts) of interviews of senior members of the Society.

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The American Society for Legal History is dedicated to enriching the field of legal history though the scholarly study of the role of law across time, around the world, and with a wide variety of methods. To that end, we facilitate, edit and help to fund publications, organize an annual meeting, and sponsor programs, grants, prizes, and fellowships.

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The American Society for Legal History sponsors a number of competitive programs, grants, prizes, and fellowships which benefit our members. We support programs that – in addition to welcoming new participants to our annual meetings — create smaller and more focused venues where junior scholars may develop their skills, seek opportunities for career-building publications, interact with senior scholars, and meet peers from around the world with whom they will collaborate throughout their careers.

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Programs, grants, prizes, and fellowships The American Society for Legal History sponsors a number of programs, grants, prizes, and fellowships which benefit our members. We support programs that – in addition to welcoming new participants to our annual meetings — create smaller and more focused venues where junior scholars may develop their skills, seek opportunities for career-building publications, interact with senior scholars, and meet peers from around the world with whom they will collaborate throughout their careers.

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The Society was delighted to induct Paul Brand, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Joan W. Scott, Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Robert W. Gordon, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School as honorary fellows on November 14, 2020.

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The ASLH is delighted to announce our 2021 prize, honors, and fellowship winners! Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize Land-Grab Universities (https://www.landgrabu.org/) a remarkable project led by Dr. Robert Lee, Lecturer in American History and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge University who put together an interdisciplinary team that included a journalist (Tristan Ahtone), a data visualizer (George McGhee), a web designer (Cody Leff), a cartographer (Margaret Peace), and a photographer (Kalen Goodluck).

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Harold M. Hyman was one of the most influential constitutional historians of his time, an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History and its president from 1993 to 1995. He was the author of the leading constitutional history of the Reconstruction era and, with William M.

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The J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History is a biennial event sponsored by ASLH and traditionally held in June in Madison, Wisconsin, with support from the Institute for Legal Studies of the University of Wisconsin, where the late Professor James Willard Hurst was a founding member of the modern field of legal history.

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