The Society sponsors fellowships to foster innovative scholarship, promote inclusive membership, and to cultivate new generations of legal historians. These fellowships support programs that – in addition to welcoming new participants to our annual meetings — create smaller and more focused venues where early career 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.
STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
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. Learn MoreCriteria
Early-post-coursework Ph.D. students and historically minded law students.
Amount
Fellowship funding for travel and accommodation.
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Wallace Johnson First Book Program
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. Learn MoreCriteria
Scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history.
Amount
Fellowship funding for travel and accommodation.
Deadline
TBD
Cromwell Fellowships
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation makes available a number of $5,000 fellowships to support research and writing in American legal history by early-career scholars. Early-career generally includes those researching or writing a PhD dissertation (or equivalent project) and recent recipients of a graduate degree working on their first major monograph or research project. Learn MoreCriteria
Early-career scholars researching and writing in American legal history.
Amount
$5,000
Deadline
June 1, 2024
Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars
Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to early career legal historians, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers. Learn MoreCriteria
Early-career scholars who wish to present a paper on any topic in legal, institutional and/or constitutional history, at the annual ASLH conference.
Amount
$500 cash + $750 reimbursement
Deadline
April 1, 2024
J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
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. Learn MoreCriteria
Early-career scholars in law, history and other disciplines pursuing research on legal history of any part of the world.
Amount
Fellowship funding for travel and accommodation.
Deadline
TBD
Max Planck-ASLH Dissertation Prize for European Legal History in a Global Perspective
The Max Planck-ASLH Dissertation Prize for European Legal History in a Global Perspective will honor exceptional dissertations on topics in European legal history in global perspective and presented for PhD or JSD degrees awarded in the previous calendar year. Topics may include European legal interactions with people or places outside Europe, legal processes spanning Europe and other world regions, and developments in legal theory closely related to imperial, transnational, or trans-regional trends. Learn MoreCriteria
Ph.D./JSD
Amount
€2,500/month for 3 months, plus limited travel costs and insurance
Deadline
June 1, 2024
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