• ASLH Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowships

    Criteria

    Early career scholars in non-US fields

    Amount

    $2,000

    Deadline

    June 1, 2026

    This new initiative is intended to provide funding for early career scholars, publishing in English, who are working on projects in legal history relating to non-U. S. history topics. Non-U. S. history topics refers to research that does not qualify for the fellowships awarded by the Cromwell Foundation in coordination with the ASLH. Learn More

  • Virtual Early Career Legal History Workshop

    Criteria

    Ph.D./JSD/JD

    Amount

    Deadline

    TBD

    The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop is designed to provide support and intellectual community to early career scholars working in legal history, broadly defined. Applications are invited from early career scholars, publishing in English, who have completed PhDs or JDs (those working toward a JD/PhD must have completed the PhD), and are working on their first major monograph or research project. Learn More

  • Projects and Proposals Funding

    Criteria

    Project ideas to encourage novel forms of scholarly interchange, to support pedagogical experiments in legal history, and to seed new forms and venues for public history.

    Amount

    $4–6,000

    Deadline

    September 1, 2026

    The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical scholarship and in the communication of legal history to all its possible publics and audiences. Learn More
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