Anne Fleming Article Prize

Criteria

Best article on the relation of law and business/economy published in the previous two years.

Amount

$250

Deadline

N/A

The Anne Fleming Article Prize is a joint prize of the the ASLH and the Business History Conference (BHC). It is awarded every other year to the author or authors of the best article published in the previous two years in either Law and History Review or Enterprise and Society on the relation of law and business/economy in any region or historical period.

The Anne Fleming Article Prize is awarded on the recommendation of the editors of the Law and History Review (the official journal of ASLH) and Enterprise and Society (the official journal of Business History Conference). 
 
No submission is necessary. The prize will be next awarded in 2026.

Committee Members

  • Editors of Law and History Review and Enterprise and Society

Past Recipients

2024

Gerardo Con Díaz (UC Davis)

“Patent Law and the Materiality of Inventions in the California Oil Industry: The Story of Halliburton v. Walker, 1935–1946” Economy & Society 24.1 (2023): 174-96

2024

Honorable Mention: Nora Slonimsky (Iona University)

“‘To Save the Benefit of the Act of Parliamt’: Mapping an Early American Copyright” Law and History Review 40.4 (2022): 625-54

2022

Casey Marina Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

“Codifying Credit: Everyday Contracting and the Spread of the Civil Code in Nineteenth-Century Mexico” Law and History Review 39. 1 (2021): 97-133

2022

Paolo Di Martino (Torino), Mark Latham (Birmingham), and Michelangelo Vasta (Siena)

“Bankruptcy Laws around Europe (1850-2015): Institutional Change and Institutional Features” Enterprise & Society 21, no. 4 (2020): 936-990

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