We have a call for papers from a sister organisation – the ANZLHS.
The Society is pleased to circulate a Call for Papers for the 45th Annual Conference of ANZLHS, to be held 3-5 December 2026 at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand with the theme ‘Oral Sources and Non-Traditional Legal Sources’.
The CFP is available via the society website: ANZLHS.org.
Please note that this is an in person conference.
To note: this is an in person conference.
We have an announcement from the American Society for Legal History that may be of interest to many of you.
Prize Announcement
The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) is delighted to announce a new prize competition for early-career non-US legal historians. The Global Dissertation Prize, to be offered for the first time in 2026, recognizes the best dissertation from the previous calendar year on topics centered outside the United States. Eligible dissertations must be written in English and submitted for a PhD, JSD, or equivalent doctoral degree, excluding the JD, awarded in the previous calendar year (for example, a dissertation for a PhD awarded in 2025 would be eligible in 2026). Dissertations should not be predominantly focused on the US and may examine contexts, processes, or institutions that are local, regional, imperial, comparative, global, or otherwise.
Submissions should be made by the author including only (1) the dissertation as submitted to the university for the degree, and (2) a curriculum vitae.
To be considered for the year’s prize, the author should e-mail a PDF electronic copy of the dissertation and author’s curriculum vitae to the prize committee chair (globaldissertationprize@aslh.net) with the subject heading: GLOBAL DISSERTATION PRIZE SUBMISSION. Please title the PDF as “author last name” and “short title” .pdf (for example, Adewoye Lawyers Southern Nigeria.pdf).
Submissions should arrive by 1June 2026.
If you have any questions about the prize or your eligibility to apply, please reach out to the prize committee chair, Catherine Evans, catherine.evans@utoronto.ca.
Presenters have been sent the final program. For everyone else who may be coming, we are now posting it. The final Abstract Book is also available.
Please do remember to bring these with you on your devices as we will not be providing hard copies.
For those registered for online the program with zoom links will be sent to you around 48 hours before the conference. Please do check for it (and check your spam incase!) and do not panic if it does not turn up until then.
see you next week either in person or online!
The American Society for Legal History has recently established $2000 research fellowships for early career scholars, publishing in English, whose research concerns non-US topics. The application deadline is June 30, 2025. More information is available here.
A packet to familiarize you with Toronto is now posted on the Toronto 2025 / General Information page. It is also here.
We have a version 2 (and, in terms of panels, final version) of the program. Hopefully we have accommodated everyone’s requests.
We are still looking for Chairs for panel sessions. If you are participating in person please consider volunteering: we are a community and rely on presenters to help. If no chair is noted on the program that panel is still seeking one. Email and let me know if you can help and which panel.
There will be a final version of the program closer to the conference. That will include everything you need to know for the conference, including info on location, plenaries, events, room numbers etc. Again, a reminder to bring this on your device as we will not have hard copy programs. For those attending online you will receive a copy of the program with zoom links around 48 hours before the conference.
See you all soon!
There have been difficulties (mostly mine) with links. Please go to our Registration page to register.
We are now closing in on the time when we need to start finalizing our numbers for the Legal Histories of Empire conference in Toronto. Registration is scheduled to close June 1. Please make sure you are registered as soon as possible. If your attendance plans have changed, please let us know.
The draft program and information about the JCPC workshop are here.
The registration site is here.
Through this site, you can register both for the conference and for the JCPC workshop on July 9. You should be able to edit your registration to add (or subtract) the workshop if you wish, or make other changes to your registration. (I just tried it.) As well, refunds are available that way.
As noted earlier, accommodation information is posted on the main page of the website.
We are planning to have an informal drop-in event on the Wednesday evening, so people can gather if they wish to. On the Thursday evening, there will be a more formal, community-oriented event at St Michael’s College. On the Friday evening, after the plenary, we will gather for informal drinks and appetizers at a venue near the university.
Dear Conference Presenters
We expect to finalise the program in the next week. If you have any final issues with the program, or now find you cannot attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Once the program is finalised no further changes will be possible. For those few who have notified us, we are on it! Also a gentle reminder that if you are presenting you do need to register for the conference.
See you in Toronto!
Information about the July 9 workshop is now posted on the Program page.
