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Online Seminar- “Collectors and Collections of Chinese Art and Antiquities: Problems with Gifts, Trusts and Legacies” by Prof. Steven Gallagher in the CUHK LAW Greater China Legal History Seminar Series: 3 April 2020, 12.30-2pm (local Hong Kong time): CPD accreditation … Continue reading →

Lorana Bartels and Thalia Anthony have written an open letter, downloadable below, on the impact of Coronavirus on the criminal justice system. If you would like to add your name, please do so at Open letter signatories by 12 pm Friday 20 March. Please also … Continue reading →

The Peter Gonville Stein Book Award is awarded annually for the best book in non-US legal history written in English. This award is designed to recognize and encourage the further growth of fine work in legal history that focuses on all regions outside the United States, as … Continue reading →

The CFP for the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society conferences will be released soon. However, for those of you already eager to add a save the date to your calendar, the dates to hold in reserve are … Continue reading →

Registrations are open for this year’s conference, Does Law’s History Matter? The Politics of our Disciplinary Practices in Melbourne.  Online registration is available here.  You will also find a draft of the exciting conference program here.    In other news, … Continue reading →

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 →