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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.

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The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, November 3, and Thursday, November 4, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The SRC annually brings eight graduate students to the site of the ASLH annual meeting to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles, under the guidance of distinguished, ASLH-affiliated scholars.

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The American Society for Legal History will host the ninth annual Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, November 9, and Thursday, November 10, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.  The SRC annually brings eight graduate students to the site of the ASLH annual meeting to discuss their in-progress dissertations or other research projects with each other and with ASLH-affiliated scholars.

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The dates in parentheses after each name indicate when the person’s term began. Scroll to: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 2023 PRINCIPAL OFFICERS President: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University President-Elect: Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota Secretary: Ari Bryen, Vanderbilt University Treasurer: David Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas SPECIAL OFFICERS Memorialists, Laura Kalman (2020), University of California, Santa Barbara and Sarah Barringer Gordon (2020) University of Pennsylvania BOARD OF DIRECTORS Laura Edwards (2021), Princeton University Maggie Blackhawk (2021), New York University Michael Lobban (2021), London School of Economics Sarah Seo (2020), Columbia University Law School Taja-Nia Y.

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The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars.

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The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, November 20, and Thursday, November 21, 2019, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.  The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars.

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The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26, 2017, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SRC enables a small number of Ph.D.

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The American Society for Legal History will host its eleventh annual Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, October 23, and Thursday, October 24, 2024, in San Francisco, California, USA.  Each year, the SRC brings eight graduate students to the site of the ASLH annual meeting to discuss their in-progress research projects with each other and with ASLH-affiliated scholars.

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The American Society for Legal History will host the tenth annual Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.  Each year, the SRC brings eight graduate students to the site of the ASLH annual meeting to discuss in-progress research projects with each other and with ASLH-affiliated scholars.

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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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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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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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On November 6, the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) announced at its 51st annual meeting the creation of new fellowships honoring distinguished scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of legal history. Two fellowships are named for Stanford University Law School faculty.

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The dates in parentheses after each name indicate when the person’s term began. Members of the Board of Directors serve for terms of three years. Lists of officers, directors, and committee members for previous years may be found here. Jump to: Officers Board of Directors Committees and Positions PRINCIPAL OFFICERS President: Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota President-Elect: Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Secretary: Ari Bryen, Vanderbilt University Treasurer: David Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas SPECIAL OFFICERS Memorialists, Laura Kalman (2020), University of California, Santa Barbara and Sarah Barringer Gordon (2020) University of Pennsylvania BOARD OF DIRECTORS Laura Edwards (2021), Princeton University Maggie Blackhawk (2021), New York University Michael Lobban (2021), London School of Economics Lucy Salyer (2021), University of New Hampshire* Daniel Hulsebosch (2021), New York University Michelle McKinley (2022), University of Oregon Sam Erman (2022), University of Michigan* Elizabeth Katz (2022), University of Florida Catherine Evans (2022), University of Toronto Jelani Hayes (2022), Yale University, Graduate Student Member Fahad Bishara (2023), University of Virginia Daniel Ernst (2023), Georgetown University Elizabeth Kamali (2023), Harvard University* Amalia Kessler (2023), Stanford University Anne Twitty (2023), Stanford University Michael Willrich (ex officio, Immediate Past President), Brandeis University * Executive Committee Member COMMITTEES AND POSITIONS Members of all committees except the Finance Committee, the Willard Hurst Memorial Fund Committee, and the Local Arrangements Committee, serve three-year terms.

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Denver, November 6-9, 2014 The Society held its annual meeting in the majestic Rocky Mountain state for the first time. The program for the meeting is available here:<2014 ASLH Program LR>. As one member put it: “We move from sea-level Miami to the Mile High City.”

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The ASLH is delighted to announce our 2020 prize, honors, and fellowship winners!   Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize Sean Fraga of the University of Southern California for  “They Came on Waves of Ink: Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade at the Dawn of American Settlement, 1851-1861,” https://seanfraga.com/wavesofink/.

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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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Laurie Wood (1985-2023) was a historian of law in the French colonial world, with interests that spanned the globe in the early modern period. Dr. Wood grew up in Texas. She did her BA at Texas Tech University and her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin (2013) with advisor Dr.

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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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