If you missed the ASLH meeting in Boston, or weren’t able to follow the social media discussion, fear not. We have the most insightful, provocative and popular Twitter conversations here. Can 140 characters reshape your view of legal history?
The preconference not only met but completely exceeded our expectations. We are so grateful to our panelists and participants for the amazing, amazing conversation! And many thanks to Anders Walker for this outstanding write up. #aslh2019 https://t.co/YSbZTjepAx
— Brooke Depenbusch (@bkdbusch) November 24, 2019
This one is for the ancestors. #honored #aslh2019 pic.twitter.com/LMSHDHIOIM
— Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD (@marthasjones_) November 23, 2019
Yes, long live the Hurst Institute! – crucial training ground for up-and-coming legal historians. A highlight of #ASLH2019 was hearing about the @ASLHtweets campaign to put the Hurst on secure financial footing through fellowships named for dedicated & beloved mentors. https://t.co/lMphGyhPN6
— Karen Tani (@kmtani) November 24, 2019
Congratulations @Cath_L_Evans and @itihaasnaama on winning the Surrency prizes for best article published in Law and History Review in 2018 and Honorable Mention for best non-US legal history book published in 2018!!!!! So well-deserved! #ASLH2019 pic.twitter.com/Xv3xxE1RgB
— Fadzilah Yahaya (@nfyahaya) November 23, 2019
Congratulations to Kim Welch for winning the Cromwell Book Award for her terrific book Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South! #ASLH2019 pic.twitter.com/CGos5NMxH2
— Joanna Grisinger (@jlgrisinger) November 23, 2019
A beautiful piece by Dirk Hartog, capturing the spirit of my very favorite conference @ASLHtweets. Also important reminders of the work that still needs to be done, just in time for #ASLH2019. Beginning today with conversations about where historians often begin : an archive. https://t.co/Hb1vnmtlO5
— KRamnath (@kalramnath) November 20, 2019
Congratulations to all of the fellowship winners! And deepest thanks to the Cromwell Foundation for their support of junior scholars. #aslh2019 https://t.co/G7EwSZdFka
— American Society for Legal History (@ASLHtweets) November 23, 2019
For legal historians interested in international law/foreign relations/law and empire, the upcoming #ASLH2019 @ASLHtweets program has a lot of offerings. Here's a quick (and doubtless incomplete) look at the program /1
— Lael Weinberger (@LaelWeinberger) November 19, 2019
On Thursday, there's a symposium on African legal history which includes many papers on law, empire, and decolonization /2 pic.twitter.com/MhFZ38yqcw
— Lael Weinberger (@LaelWeinberger) November 19, 2019
Also on Thursday, a symposium on law and empire in Sino-Asian context hosted at @Harvard_Law /3 pic.twitter.com/CA54Vu1d7G
— Lael Weinberger (@LaelWeinberger) November 19, 2019
Congratulations @marthasjones_ on receiving the John Phillip Reid book prize at #aslh2019 for Birthright Citizens! 🔥 https://t.co/IDIoRzswGE
— JAAH (@JAAHistory) November 25, 2019
Jus soli citizenship or human rights? Martha Jones on the presentness of legal history. #ASLH2019 @marthasjones_ pic.twitter.com/8wGJgiQeOW
— H. Robert Baker (@FugitiveProf) November 23, 2019
So sad to miss #ASLH2019 — one of these days I’ll get there! Have fun everyone and please tweet so I can follow the action!
— Jessica K. Lowe (@jessicaklowe) November 22, 2019
These saucy intruders are closing #ASLH2019 with a delightful conversation on writing about and teaching Pierson v Post — celebrating Angela Fernandez, author of Pierson v Post: The Hunt for the Fox, w @DeborahDinner Dirk Hartog, Daniel Hulsebosch & Kunal Parker pic.twitter.com/vROBCshuqn
— Daniel J. Sharfstein (@dsharfstein) November 23, 2019
Great to see such positive reactions to #ASLH2019 programs for early-career scholars! Details about the Preyer Scholar program, Wallace Johnson First Book program, and more are here:https://t.co/RC8pM9tY64
— American Society for Legal History (@ASLHtweets) November 22, 2019
I took that photo! Great authors, great books (and one editor)… studies in Legal History of the #ASLH2019 https://t.co/b8MMyUpDNP
— Holly Brewer (@earlymodjustice) November 24, 2019
A HUGE thanks to the Graduate Students who staffed our registration table at #ASLH2019 ! You did a terrific job!
— lucy.salyer (@SalyerLucy) November 24, 2019
Prof. Michael Lobban announced the award of the #ASLH2019 Sutherland Prize to Patrick Weil and Nicholas Handler, for ‘Revocation of Citizenship and Rule of Law: How Judicial Review Defeated Britain’s First Denaturalization Regime’, Law and History Review 36(2) (2018): 295-354. pic.twitter.com/wPJ73Rfaoj
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 23, 2019
Honourable mention to @LizPappKamali for ‘Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law’, in Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller, ed. Kate Gilbert & Stephen D. White. #ASLH2019
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 23, 2019
Congratulations and thank you to Sarah Barringer Gordon for completing her term as President of @ASLHtweets. The Society has continued to grow into a wonderful, inclusive place for legal historians of all stripes, times and places. #ASLH2019 pic.twitter.com/Hemj8K309A
— Adnan A. Zulfiqar, JD/PhD (@adnanAzulfiqar) November 23, 2019
Congratulations to Martha Jones, who won the John Phillip Reid book prize for her fantastic book Birthright Citizens! https://t.co/Q7OtcF5b8f #ASLH2019
— Joanna Grisinger (@jlgrisinger) November 24, 2019
Here at #ASLH2019 we’re celebrating @UMichLaw’s Rebecca Scott for her scholarship and service to the field of legal history as an honorary member of the society. 🤩 Congrats!!!!
— Emily Prifogle, JD/PhD (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 23, 2019
Very excited to be included in this group of scholars! #ASLH2019 https://t.co/2I3uS2cVRn
— Signe Peterson Fourmy, JD, ABD (@Signe_P_Fourmy) November 23, 2019
Excited for so many fascinating panels this weekend at #ASLH2019! pic.twitter.com/xprHhuCDFT
— Jessica Fletcher (@_jsfletcher) November 22, 2019
Had a great time talking about strategies and challenges of teaching Islamic law on the wonderful panel "Teaching Legal History in the 21st Century" at #ASLH2019. Some points I brought up for discussion about pedagogy of Islamic law in the university classroom:
— رها (@RahaRafii) November 24, 2019
So inspired by Sex and Motherhood Reimagined #ASLH2019 . @ProfMMurray on erasure of sexual liberty claims underpinning Griswold. Julie Suk on the comparative const histories of both repro privacy and state support for childbearing
— Deborah Dinner (@DeborahDinner) November 22, 2019
Alice Kessler Harris: how to defend privacy in home and sexuality while still fighting for gender equality? Need to understand in context of long history of morality as subject of state policing. Why did notion of family as state surrogate in guardian of morality disintegrate?
— Deborah Dinner (@DeborahDinner) November 22, 2019
Hooray for another @womnknowhistory collab! Congratulations to @marthasjones_ on being awarded the @ASLHtweets #ASLH2019 John Phillip Reid Book Prize for her book ‘Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America’ #WomenInAcademia https://t.co/KBUj5bk0Wt pic.twitter.com/NXeVOKCQHj
— Women Also Know Law (@womenknowlaw) December 4, 2019
Grateful for opportunity to discuss CHINA’S WAR ON SMUGGLING at #ASLH2019! Always a pleasure to read one’s own book through other eyes. Thanks to @ParCassel @gauthamrao @FeiHsien_Wang for discussing. And thanks to Jenny Day @peterdewittt @xpzttt and others for participating!
— Philip Thai (@philip_thai) November 25, 2019
Finally sincere thanks to @ASLHtweets @kmtani @mjsharafi and many others for highlighting panels at #ASLH2019! The publicity is very helpful and much appreciated.
— Philip Thai (@philip_thai) November 25, 2019
Great weekend at #ASLH2019: fabulous panels, conversations, family I had not seen for decades, walking where a 1629 ancestor walked, exploring the Mystic River port he established, excellent food & time for writing, Hermes down the street #Boston #twitterstorians @womnknowhistory pic.twitter.com/xSbfgEZt49
— Prof. Judith A. Miller (@JMiller1789) November 25, 2019
Congrats to all the presenters at #ASLH2019 for spectacular, thoughtful papers! Love hearing about my colleagues’ work!
— lucy.salyer (@SalyerLucy) November 24, 2019
Showing off how much we love being graduate students at the @ASLHtweets 2019 conference in Boston this year! Can we get the logo on a T-shirt? 👚 #legalhistorians #ASLH2019 pic.twitter.com/Okpzw5sktb
— Doris Morgan Rueda (@dee_linquent) November 24, 2019
Reunion breakfast in Boston with five 2019 Hurst Institute fellows (L to R): Jesse Watson, Myisha Eatmon, @EmilyAPrifogle @BriannaNofil Jose Argueta Funes #aslh2019 @ASLHtweets @WisconsinLaw @UWLawILS https://t.co/YdrxRG28FS Long live the Hurst! pic.twitter.com/8Ie83yY16H
— Mitra Sharafi (@mjsharafi) November 24, 2019
Just posted the first of our #ASLH2019 guest posts over @legalhistory. Thanks to Anders Walker for this outstanding recap of the @ASLHtweets preconf symposium on legal histories of state & local gov't, convened by @bkdbusch & Rabia Belt: https://t.co/0cOYnU4FHZ
— Karen Tani (@kmtani) November 24, 2019
Heading home from #ASLH2019, physically tired but intellectually energized to get writing! What a great weekend of conversation with colleagues old and new.
— In ExChelseas Deo 🎄❄️ (@cdchambs) November 24, 2019
I had a wonderful time at #ASLH2019 this weekend. I want to extend a special thanks to Kelly Kennington, @ProfessorTwitty, and @allisonmadar for making me feel so welcome. True collegiality in action, for which I’m grateful.
— Cory James Young (@coryjamesyoung) November 24, 2019
Honestly, it was one of the easiest and most rewarding teaching days from the whole semester. Here is a copy of the worksheet I made, for those who are interested: https://t.co/ZqIjOhyN3D #ASLH2019 https://t.co/ZUFFG1P6of
— Ashton Merck (@awmerck) November 24, 2019
Disrupting the Cause Lawyering Narrative — great panel by 3 early career scholars that questions how we should define and understand "cause lawyering" — #ASLH2019 (thread 1/13)
— Ashton Merck (@awmerck) November 24, 2019
Agreed: thank you Sally Gordon for all that you have done as ASLH president, especially for fund-raising to help put the Hurst Institute on a solid financial footing! https://t.co/YdrxRG28FS #aslh2019 @ASLHtweets @WisconsinLaw @UWLawILS https://t.co/n5T1YaP77c
— Mitra Sharafi (@mjsharafi) November 24, 2019
Legal history rising! #ASLH2019 https://t.co/ME8mJKDYdm
— H. Robert Baker (@FugitiveProf) November 23, 2019
Fantastic final panel for #aslh2019! @ASLHtweets https://t.co/V0QIUcybS0 pic.twitter.com/LYjiNfynVB
— Elizabeth D. Katz (@elizabethdkatz) November 23, 2019
Another wonderful panel at #aslh2019 on Contested Movement: Law, State Power, and the Policing of Mobility Rights
— Deborah Dinner (@DeborahDinner) November 23, 2019
Congratulations again, @marthasjones_! And thank you, always, for holding space on this platform (and others) for folks to engage and connect. Much, much deserved!#ASLH2019 @ASLHtweets https://t.co/ugrjwXQXAn
— Taja-Nia Henderson (@hyphenatedprof) November 23, 2019
It was a pleasure representing #Hanse research & @FGHO_eu at #ASLH2019! I could only introduce this fascinating phenomenon. If you'd like to hear more about our work are interested in literature, check out our homepage &/or get in touch!https://t.co/kSmXiAF9QO#Hanse4ever pic.twitter.com/SqRzwHBuFI
— Angela Huang (@angelalinghuang) November 23, 2019
Congrats to @marthasjones_, whose book Birthright Citizens has been awarded the 2019 ASLH John Phillip Reid Prize! #aslh2019 pic.twitter.com/M1o5dHFpc9
— History at Cambridge (@cambUP_History) November 23, 2019
Delighted for my wonderful colleague, University Professor and Dean Emeritus, Rayman Solomon (@raymansolo) on being awarded the Craig Joyce Medal for extraordinary and sustained volunteer service to @ASLHtweets. Richly deserved! @RutgersLaw#ASLH2019 pic.twitter.com/lgQmfeAR5G
— Adnan A. Zulfiqar, JD/PhD (@adnanAzulfiqar) November 23, 2019
Congratulations, Michael Burton, @drdreher, @wgthomas3, & the @CDRH_UNL team for winning the Mary Dudziak Prize for Digital Legal History from @ASLHtweets #ASLH2019 for O Say Can You See & Anna. Proud to bring it home to @UNLincoln pic.twitter.com/5FgiFs4FlX
— Katrina Jagodinsky (@drjagodinsky) November 23, 2019
Congratulations, Michael Burton, @drdreher, @wgthomas3, & the @CDRH_UNL team for winning the Mary Dudziak Prize for Digital Legal History from @ASLHtweets #ASLH2019 for O Say Can You See & Anna. Proud to bring it home to @UNLincoln pic.twitter.com/5FgiFs4FlX
— Katrina Jagodinsky (@drjagodinsky) November 23, 2019
Passing the gavel! #ASLH2019 pic.twitter.com/W8pNrsgrIL
— Ariela Gross (@arielagross) November 23, 2019