David Lieberman (1953-2022) was a globally-renowned scholar, gifted teacher, model colleague, and a mentor who combined wisdom and generosity in awe-inspiring measures. David was born in Ohio, and raised in Rockville Center, New York. He finished high school in England, while his parents were there on a sabbatical leave, and then stayed to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees at Cambridge University. Read the rest The post David Lieberman first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2023 We are excited to announce a new virtual initiative: The ASLH Book Club, a monthly event series that will bring together ASLH members to engage virtually with authors about their recently published books. The Book Club will provide ASLH members the opportunity to gather on a regular basis throughout the year and discuss recently published work.  Read the rest The post ASLH Virtual Book Club first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

  Michael deLaval Landon (1935-2021), a longtime good and faithful servant of the Society and Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, was born to Brigadier General Arthur Henry Whittington Landon, OBE, and Elizabeth Worthington Fair Landon in St. Johns, New Brunswick. Read the rest The post Michael Landon first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

CREATING A SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE PROPOSAL Barbara Y. Welke, Distinguished McKnight University Professor & Professor of History and Law, University of Minnesota and Kenneth Ledford, Associate Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University 2010 ASLH Program Committee Co-Chairs Updated by Sophia Z. Read the rest The post Creating a successful conference panel first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

The ASLH Projects and Proposals committee (chaired by Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt) has announced support for three projects. Please join us in offering thanks to the committee members, and congratulations to the recipients. Hardeep Dhillon and Maddalena Marinari, “Illustrating Law: America’s Immigrants and the Struggle for U.S. Read the rest The post ASLH Funded Projects, 2022 first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

The John Phillip Reid Book Award Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021). Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done uncovers the long arc of civil rights activism in the North, showing how it arose as distinct from antislavery activism and laid the intellectual and political foundations for the later emergence of the Fourteenth Amendment. Read the rest The post Congratulations to our 2022 Prize Winners! first appeared on American Society for Leg ..read more

This year, the ASLH Annual Meeting will coincide with the meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, who will be meeting on the same premises. In the spirit of generosity, both organizations have agreed to allow reciprocity to scholars attending the other meeting. Read the rest The post ASLH and NACBS first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

With support of the American Society for Legal History, researchers of the project ‘Global Legal History on the Ground’ (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) have published a video series and a bibliography on ‘Court Cases and the Writing of African History’. Read the rest The post Court Cases and the Making of African Legal History first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

At its annual meeting, the ASLH makes available a Resource Team composed of three members to answer questions and assist members in understanding the ASLH’s policies and procedures, including policies and procedures regarding professional conduct. The Resource Team provides informal support and works with members to ensure that their concerns are heard in a safe and (when possible) confidential way. Read the rest The post Conference Resource Team for the Chicago 2022 Annual Meeting first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more

ASLH 2022 Annual Conference Draft Program[31] Read the rest The post ASLH Program 2022 first appeared on American Society for Legal History ..read more