STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

The American Society for Legal History will host its eleventh annual Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, November 12, and Thursday, November 13, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Each year, the SRC 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. Target applicants include early-post-coursework Ph.D. students and historically minded law students. All students whose research touches on legal-historical themes are encouraged to apply, whatever their chronological or geographical focuses. Applicants who have not yet had an opportunity to interact with the ASLH are welcome, as are those who have never received any formal training in legal history. A student may present a paper at the annual meeting and participate in the SRC in the same year. The ASLH will either partially or fully reimburse participants’ travel, hotel, and conference-registration costs. To apply, submit the following three items to John Wertheimer at: srcproposals@aslh.net:

• a cover letter describing, among other things, how far along you are and approximately how many years remain in your present course of study;
• an up-to-date CV; and
• a two-page, single-spaced research statement that contains a working title and describes the in-progress research project that you would like to present at the colloquium.

Application deadline: June 1, 2025.

Thanks to the generosity of ASLH donors, the SRC is able to offer student participants fellowships named in honor of past and present leaders in our field: the Lauren Benton Fellowship, the Herbert A. Johnson Fellowship, the Martha Jones Fellowship, the Laura Kalman Fellowship, the William Novak/University of Michigan Law School Fellowship, the Amy Dru Stanley Fellowship, the John Wertheimer/Davidson College Fellowship, and the James Whitman/Yale Law School Fellowship.