Honorary Fellows

Criteria

Recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the discipline of legal history.

Amount

Recognition

Deadline

N/A

Election as an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History is the highest honor the Society can confer. It recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the broad discipline of legal history and influenced the work of others. Honorary Fellows are the scholars we admire, whom we aspire to emulate, and on whose shoulders we stand.

Prior to 2011, there were two categories of elected fellows–Honorary Fellows, who were residents of the United States or Canada, and Corresponding Fellows, who resided and worked elsewhere. To acknowledge the growing international reach of the Society–as reflected in its membership, the participants at the annual meeting, and the scholarship published in Law and History Review and Studies in Legal History–the members of the Society amended its by-laws to discontinue the category of Corresponding Fellows and to create a single category of Honorary Fellows drawn from the world-wide community of scholars of law and history. All Corresponding Fellows were invited to join the new expanded category of Honorary Fellows, and all accepted.

The names of the Honorary Fellows, with their year of election, appear below.

(*)  Originally elected as a Corresponding Fellow
(†)  Deceased

Past Recipients

2024

Peter Solomon, University of Toronto

2024

Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University

2024

James R. Phillips, University of Toronto

2023

Radhika Singha, Kate Hambuger Kolleg, Münster/Jawaharlal Nehru University

2023

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

2023

Thomas Duve, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

2022

Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University

2022

Silvia Lara, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

2022

Richard Roberts, Stanford University

2021

James Q. Whitman, Yale University

2021

Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, University of Buenos Aires (†)

2021

Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology, Sydney

2020

Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University and Yale University

2020

Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study

2020

Paul Brand, All Souls College, University of Oxford and University of Michigan

2019

Sally Falk Moore, Harvard University (†)

2019

Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan

2019

David Sugarman, Lancaster University and University of London

2018

Jane Burbank, New York University

2018

Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School

2018

Robert C. Palmer, University of Houston

2017

Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University

2017

Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki

2017

David V. Williams, University of Auckland

2016

Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

2016

Bernd Rüthers, Universität Konstanz (†)

2016

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley

2015

Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University

2015

Diane Kirkby, LaTrobe University

2015

John McLaren, University of Victoria

2014

Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania

2014

Charles Donahue, Harvard University

2014

Antonio Manuel Hespanha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (†)

2013

Douglas Hay, York University

2013

Susan Reynolds, University of Oxford

2013

Reva B. Siegel, Yale University

2012

John M. Beattie, University of Toronto (†)

2012

Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa

2012

Bruce R. Kercher, Macquarie University

2011

Philip Girard, Dalhousie University

2011

William E. Nelson, New York University

2006

Morton J. Horwitz, Harvard University

2006

Anne Lefebvre-Teillard, Université Panthéon-Assas (*)

2005

Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara

2004

R.H. Helmholz, University of Chicago

2004

Kjell Modéer, Lunds universitet (*)

2003

Paolo Grossi, Università degli Studi di Firenze (*)(†)

2001

Hector L. MacQueen, University of Edinburgh (*)

2001

Peter G. Stein, University of Cambridge (†)

2001

Michael Stolleis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (*)(†)

1999

Morris L. Cohen, Yale University (†)

1999

Kathryn T. Preyer, Wellesley College (†)

1999

Harry N. Scheiber, University of California, Berkeley

1998

Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford University

1998

Harold M. Hyman, Rice University

1998

W.A.J. Watson, University of Georgia (†)

1997

Ennio Cortese, Università di Roma (*)

1994

Peter Landau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (*†)

1994

A.W.B. Simpson, University of Michigan (†)

1992

J.H. Baker, University of Cambridge (*)

1992

Leonard W. Levy, Claremont Graduate School (†)

1990

Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University

1989

John T. Noonan, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (†)

1988

Richard B. Morris, Columbia University (†)

1988

John Phillip Reid, New York University (†)

Prior Years

Morris S. Arnold, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Raoul C. van Caenegem, Universiteit Gent (*†)
S.F.C. Milsom, University of Cambridge (*†)
David Daube, University of California, Berkeley (†)
John P. Dawson, Harvard University (†)
Charles Fairman, Harvard University (†)
George L. Haskins, University of Pennsylvania (†)
J. Willard Hurst, University of Wisconsin (†)
Stephan G. Kuttner, University of California, Berkeley (†)
Gaines Post, Princeton University (†)
A. Arthur Schiller, Columbia University (†)
Samuel E. Thorne, Harvard University (†)

Corresponding Fellows

Helmut Coing, Max-Planck-Instituts für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (†)
François Dumont, Université de Paris II (†)
Robert Feenstra, Universiteit Leiden (†)
Alfonso García-Gallo de Diego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (†)
Jean Gaudemet, Université de Paris II (†)
André Gouron, Université de Montpellier (†)
Emile Lousse, Université catholique de Louvain (†)
Henry G. Richardson, Goudhurst, United Kingdom (†)
G.O. Sayles, University of Aberdeen (†)
Thomas B. Smith, University of Edinburgh (†)
André Tunc, Université de Paris II (†)
Franz Wieacker, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (†)

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