About
The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) is an international academic society dedicated to fostering scholarship and teaching in the many fields of legal history around the world. The organization supports its members through conferences, publications (including the Law and History Review journal and Studies in Legal History book series with Cambridge University Press), fellowships, research grants, prizes for dissertations, books, and articles, as well as programs for early-career scholars such as the Hurst Summer Institute and the Wallace Johnson First Book Program.
Funding Opportunities
Projects and Proposals Funding
The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical scholarship and in the communication of legal history to all its possible publics and audiences. The committee aims to bring talented new voices into the field, promote novel forms of scholarly interchange, support pedagogical experiments in legal history, and seed new forms and venues for public history. The program welcomes a broad range of proposals including support for conferences, scholarly publications, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, or other collective pursuits. The committee particularly encourages projects that seek to internationalize legal history by widening the study of legal history or by bringing a global array of scholars and students into conversation with one another. Projects that promise to bring a younger generation of scholars and students into the field are especially welcome. Most grants awarded are less than $5,000, with amounts typically ranging from $4,000 to $6,000. Proposals may come from educational institutions or from informal groups or networks of individuals. The committee expects that projects would have other institutional collaborators and/or cosponsors, including home universities. Funds are usually expended in the calendar year following the award. This funding does not support ongoing and recurrent activities, projects that have already been funded three times by the committee, individual research projects, or ASLH pre-conference organizers. In most cases, someone involved in the proposal will be a member of the Society.
Virtual Early Career Legal History Workshop
The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop is designed to provide support and intellectual community to early career scholars working in legal history, broadly defined. Applications are invited from early career scholars, publishing in English, who have completed PhDs or JDs (those working toward a JD/PhD must have completed the PhD), and are working on their first major monograph or research project. The committee will select seven (7) Fellows for the 2025-26 workshop. The workshop will be limited to the Fellows and Faculty Chairs and will meet once monthly via Zoom from September through April (no meeting in November because of the Annual Meeting) giving each fellow an opportunity to share work-in-progress with the group for discussion and feedback. The 2025-26 Early Career LHW will be chaired by distinguished faculty from Princeton University and University of Oregon. Fellows must commit to participate for the full academic year. The workshop encourages applications from scholars with expertise in all chronological periods and geographical fields, both within and outside the United States, as well as from those who may not yet identify as legal historians.
Surrency Prize
The Surrency Prize is awarded annually for the best article published in the Society's journal, the Law and History Review, in the previous year. The prize is named in honor of Erwin C. Surrency, a founding member and first president of the Society and for many years the editor of its former publication, the American Journal of Legal History. The committee reviews every article published in the Law and History Review in the previous year, making this a recognition of outstanding scholarship in legal history published through the Society's journal. As nominations are unnecessary since all articles are automatically considered, this prize serves as an important benchmark for excellence in legal history scholarship.
Anne Fleming Article Prize
The Anne Fleming Article Prize is a joint prize of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) and the Business History Conference (BHC). It is awarded every other year to the author or authors of the best article published in the previous two years in either Law and History Review or Enterprise and Society on the relation of law and business/economy in any region or historical period. The prize recognizes excellence in scholarship that explores the intersection of legal and business/economic history. The award is made on the recommendation of the editors of Law and History Review (the official journal of ASLH) and Enterprise and Society (the official journal of Business History Conference). No submission is necessary, as the editors select the winner from articles published in these two journals. The prize will be next awarded in 2026.
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