News & Announcements

The American Society for Legal History sponsors a number of competitive programs, grants, prizes, and fellowships which benefit our members. We support programs that – in addition to welcoming new participants to our annual meetings — create smaller and more focused venues where junior 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.

August 9, 2026

2026 ASLH Elections – Candidate Statements

Nominees for Board of Directors Adriana Chira: I am the Winship Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Professor of Atlantic World History at Emory University, where my research focuses on race, slavery, and property ownership in Latin America. My first book, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge, 2022), explored how rural Afro-descendants’ claims to property coalesced into freedom demands and the political pursuit of independence for the island. Keep Reading