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Postgraduate students wishing to attend this year’s conference, and especially those who have had a paper accepted, can apply for a Kercher Scholarship to assist with costs. Please note that the deadline for applications is 31 August. Further information is … Continue reading →

‘Does Law’s History Matter? The Politics of our Disciplinary Practices’ Information about this year’s annual conference, the society’s 38th, including key note speakers, draft program and information about the society’s Kercher scholarships for postgraduate students is available here.

The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 20, and Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.  The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law … Continue reading →

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Article prize is awarded annually for the best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar. Articles published in 2018 in the field of American legal history, broadly conceived, will be considered. … Continue reading →

We have a winner! Congratulations to Ph.D student,Timothy Calabria, (History, La Trobe University) who has won the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History prize for 2018 for his paper presented at the ANZLHS Annual conference in Wollongong. Judges Report … Continue reading →

the latest edition of law&history is out. Contents can be seen on the ‘Journal’ page and the whole will be available soon via Heinonline; Informit etc.

The international community of legal history scholars is mourning the death last week of Wes Pue in Vancouver. We reported on his ill-health recently but now sadly have to express our condolences to Wes’s family.  We have an obituary by … Continue reading →