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September 25, 2025

New Works in Legal History: Displays at the Detroit Meeting

New Works in Legal History: Many legal historians publish books with presses that are not represented at the conference book sale. In recognition of this fact, the ASLH will host a table to showcase this important new research at the Detroit book exhibit. If you published a book recently that will not otherwise be represented at the book sale, we invite you to bring a copy to the conference (or have a friend deliver one) as a donation to this effort. Please have your book on the table by Friday morning. It will be raffled off to a lucky winner on Saturday. The book should relate sufficiently to legal history and be published in 2024 or 2025. For the raffle, preference will be given to doctoral students, junior scholars (pre-tenure), independent scholars, and international scholars (scholars based outside of the US). Please contact Mitra Sharafi with any questions: president-elect@aslh.net

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