Did you miss the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History? Or perhaps you want to revisit some of the conference’s greatest hits, like when ASLH President Sally Gordon fired us up to not get pushed around by the quilters (she was of course kidding. We legal historians love quilts!)? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Legal historian Emily Prifogle created a Twitter Moment compiling all the coverage of the conference through the #ASLH2018 hashtag. Thank you Emily! And thank you to all those live-tweeters who made possible this digital archive of the conference’s proceedings. And finally, thank you to Law and History Review‘s Editorial Assistant, Amina Niass, for all her hard work in putting this timeline together.
The program for the upcoming American Society for Legal History Conference & conference info is now online:https://t.co/ReY4QivLUh#ASLH2018 #twitterstorians
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) September 12, 2018
Looking for the #ASLH2018 conference schedule? Here's the "At A Glance" draft version 👇 pic.twitter.com/NglOCBq8kc
— Emily Prifogle (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 5, 2018
Excited to head to Houston tomorrow to participate in the ASLH Johnson First Book Program. The pre-workshop readings were already helpful! #ASLH2018 https://t.co/a6DDxGjIpW
— Amanda Hughett (@abhughett) November 6, 2018
See you tomorrow at #ASLH2018 @legalhistory pic.twitter.com/T2ZT2F0gSj
— Ariela Gross (@arielagross) November 7, 2018
Looking forward to some great papers and panels on English legal history at #ASLH2018 in Houston! https://t.co/DGoUXEvs7a pic.twitter.com/zbV6GzAr0F
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 8, 2018
Flying out to #ASLH2018 today with a bunch of these. Find me if you want some! #LegalHistory #WomenAlsoKnowHistory pic.twitter.com/SXyGKVpgvb
— Emily Prifogle (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 8, 2018
#ASLH2018 teaching preconference – Sally Hadden has put together a great list of legal history databases that will be posted soon at @LHR_editor ‘s The Docket @thedocketlhr
— Joanna Grisinger (@jlgrisinger) November 8, 2018
If you are at #ASLH2018 make sure to tweet away! We will feature coverage of the Annual Meeting in our next issue!
— The Docket (@TheDocketLHR) November 8, 2018
Thanks to @drjagodinsky for organizing a great preconference workshop!
— Joanna Grisinger (@jlgrisinger) November 8, 2018
Great conversation on teaching #legalhistory at Day 1 of #ASLH2018! Thanks to @marthasjones_ for joining me in conversation & to @drjagodinsky for organizing https://t.co/ECNRZFQN8m
— Karen Tani, JD/PhD (@kmtani) November 8, 2018
A very engaged group discussing #legalhistory teaching in our #ASLH2018 pre-conference workshop sponsored by @unlcas! Thanks to presenters @marthasjones_ @kmtani @sally_hadden Kim Welch & Ari Bryen pic.twitter.com/UgdDGBBMsq
— Katrina Jagodinsky (@drjagodinsky) November 8, 2018
Your loyal @legalhistory bloggers are at #ASLH2018! If you're here, too, consider submitting a guest post about a panel you attend. Help us cover the conference for folks who can't be here. cc: @mjsharafi @dbqur
— Karen Tani, JD/PhD (@kmtani) November 8, 2018
Come here me talk about English bridewells (and maybe even more types of prison 😱) tomorrow at 2:50pm! #ASLH2018 https://t.co/jPdAVyeVPk
— Kiran Mehta (@kirmet92) November 8, 2018
Excited to be talking about corporations and their hidden influence on the Constitution with @nikobowie Evelyn Atkinson & Greg Mark this weekend @ #ASLH2018 in Houston.
— Adam Winkler (@adamwinkler) November 9, 2018
On my way to Houston for #ASLH2018. Looking forward to chairing tomorrow’s 8:30 a.m. panel on “Ecclesiastical Normativity in Colonial Ibero-America and the Philippines.” See you there! pic.twitter.com/oO4azg6uop
— Joshua C. Tate (@JCTate1215) November 9, 2018
We’re here! The co-@OuachitaHistory Topical Seminar is in Houston this weekend for the American Society for Legal History annual meeting. #aslh2018 pic.twitter.com/swa9vtyJYp
— OuachitaSJUS (@OuachitaSJUS) November 9, 2018
Looking forward to my #ASLH2018 panel Friday at 1:20: "Nondisabled Normalcy" in U.S. Law & Policy. Here's a thread on my paper: Casualties: Disability, Death & the Memory of War (w/ reflections on Korea) 1/ https://t.co/upHWsD7mCE
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 9, 2018
First up today at #ASLH2018! I’ll be talking about Hendrik Hartog’s latest book, “The Trouble with Minna,” from @uncpressblog. https://t.co/RhnZ4XkZAn
— Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD (@marthasjones_) November 9, 2018
So many great panels coming up at 10:40 at #ASLH2018. Among them: legal history luminaries discuss @profamandatyler's Habeas Corpus in Wartime, rm 340 AB. pic.twitter.com/nhPklRbKBO
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 9, 2018
Thread on #ASLH2018 Dirk Hatrog panel by @EmilyAPrifogle: https://t.co/RiPCDZX0jm
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 9, 2018
Honored to chair this morning’s excellent #ASLH2018 panel on ecclesiastical normativity in the Ibero-American world, featuring Natalie Cobo, Juan Cobo Betancourt, and Gustavo César Cabral. pic.twitter.com/pVu4CJ85KO
— Joshua C. Tate (@JCTate1215) November 9, 2018
Enjoyed the thoughtful discussion/critique on black agency and negotiation freedom / the continuing conditions of slavery at Dirk Hartog’s Trouble w Minna roundtable #ASLH2018
— Haris Durrani (@hdernity) November 9, 2018
If you’re at #ASLH in Houston, the @Kansas_Press is all set up. Please stop by and check out our latest titles in law and legal history. And let me know if you have a book project in mind. pic.twitter.com/94Ew5ZEzh8
— David Congdon (@dwceditor) November 9, 2018
#ASLH2018: "Transcending Categories: Transgender Law & Identity in American History," feat. Jesse Bayker (Rutgers), @kateredburn (Yale), @ProfMAGeorge (Wake Forest), comment by Regina Kunzel (Princeton)
— Karen Tani, JD/PhD (@kmtani) November 9, 2018
Hey #ASLH – Stop by our booth and tell @dwceditor hello! If you bring him a cowboy hat and boots, he'll call you 'pardner' while discussing our much-respected Landmark Law Cases series. 📚🤠 https://t.co/Lp1NRmBAk0
— Univ Press of Kansas (@Kansas_Press) November 9, 2018
The great @ProfTolson talks republicanism and the Electoral College, with @Nedfoley and Mark Graber at #ASLH2018. pic.twitter.com/GrNUYAxLDU
— Lori Ringhand (@Lring86) November 9, 2018
@steve_vladeck argues next great have as debate will be over undocumented immigrants. #ASLH2018 https://t.co/cizKZLx6q9
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 9, 2018
Sam Scharff: Hervey Cleckley, GA psychiatrist c.1930s-80s who wanted to "strengthen the institutional seal on psychopaths," whom he estimated to be 1/4 of his admitted patients. #ASLH2018
— Mitra Sharafi (@mjsharafi) November 9, 2018
Regina Kunzel’s comments observes this is probably first time at #ASLH there’s been a panel on transgender history. These panelists take the law seriously as subject of analysis and don’t look through the law to some other aspect transgender history.
— Emily Prifogle (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 9, 2018
Just wrapping up a great panel on Transcending Categories: Transgender Law and Identity in American History at #ASLH2018
— Kiran Mehta (@kirmet92) November 9, 2018
Priya Khangura, @CraigHollander , & Andrew Walker show how law abetted continued domestic & int'l trafficking even after 1807 ban on foreign slave trade. High praise from commentators Rebecca Scott & @gauthamrao #ASLH2018
— Kristin Olbertson (@KOlbertson) November 9, 2018
It was such a privilege to participate in this stellar panel of distinguished scholars to talk about Habeas Corpus in Wartime today at the American Society for Legal History Conference #aslh2018 . @JohnFabianWitt @steve_vladeck pic.twitter.com/iQ87OEQMFh
— AMANDA L. TYLER (@profamandatyler) November 9, 2018
@RabiaBelt opened our disability legal history panel w/ important observations: Great to see #disability on the program at #ASLH2018. Can we make this conf & our field more inclusive & accessible? https://t.co/uFnlc74t92
— Karen Tani, JD/PhD (@kmtani) November 9, 2018
Happy to be at #aslh2018 where @RabiaBelt @marydudziak @kmtani and @feliciakornbluh just gave fantastic presentations on #disability #rights and #history.
— Aziza Ahmed (@AzizaAhmed) November 9, 2018
“We must shop as well as die”-Kim Reilly on consumption in another great #ASLH2018 panel.
— Alison L (@alefkovi) November 9, 2018
Earlier today, Jesse Baker on contrasting antebellum poor and elite trans men: “britches without money and britches with.” #ASLH2018
— Alison L (@alefkovi) November 9, 2018
Listening to great discussion among Sophia Lee, Tim Lovelace, @dsharfstein, @JaneDailey12 & @cwschmidt1 of @cwschmidt1 ‘s book on the sit-in movement. #ASLH2018
— Joanna Grisinger (@jlgrisinger) November 9, 2018
Plenary time! #ASLH2018 pic.twitter.com/XFFq9g5Kay
— Elizabeth D. Katz (@elizabethdkatz) November 9, 2018
My amazing colleague @arielagross is doing the plenary lecture at #aslh2018: “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: The Law of Race and Freedom” #usclaw pic.twitter.com/f3mpFO57Eb
— Franita Tolson 🤔 (@ProfTolson) November 9, 2018
@arielagross’s #ASLH2018 plenary posits the centrality of laws of freedom, a resident Native population, and the efforts of female freedom petitioners in comparative @legalhistory of slavery in Spanish, French, and British-American contexts.
— Katrina Jagodinsky (@drjagodinsky) November 10, 2018
Ready for the "Latin American Lightning Round" #ASLH2018 tomorrow morning in Houston: pic.twitter.com/oPedjO2SHX
— Mario Cajas (@marioacajas) November 10, 2018
Get yourself friends who want to tell everyone that you are the Jathryn T. Preyer Scholar (as your introverted self blushes and hides). If your friends aren’t gassing you up, you aren’t doing life right #ASLH2018
— Myisha S. Eatmon (@MyishaSEatmon) November 10, 2018
First up for me this morning at #ASLH2018 is this 8:45 panel with Caley Horan, @AlisonLefkovitz, and Allison Schwartz pic.twitter.com/VACOGenwMI
— Emily Prifogle (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 10, 2018
Ready to hear about #medhist & #legalhist from @AzizaAhmed #aslh2018 pic.twitter.com/SgLleLs18w
— Kara Swanson (@KaraWSwanson) November 10, 2018
If you need to escape Trump toxicity today, follow the news from the outstanding Amer Society for Legal History conference via #aslh2018, @EmilyAPrifogle, & others at the hashtag. Occasional wonderful panel & paper threads. #twitterstorians
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 10, 2018
@nmosvick on the law & politics of habeas claims to fight conscription in Civil War NYC; @PaulFinkelman on the revolutionary 1862 Congress, including 1st federal civil rights legislation #ASLH2018
— Kristin Olbertson (@KOlbertson) November 10, 2018
So grateful to the brilliant & proactive @kmtani for organizing this panel & my outstanding copanelists Susan Schweik, @RabiaBelt & @VTfeminist, & #twitterstorians engaging our work! Hope this is the beginning of collaboration on the intersection of #Disability & war/trauma. https://t.co/BrMZ1IiIue
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 10, 2018
Fascinating papers at intersection of #legalhistory and history of medicine! #ASLH2018 @AlixRogers123 @legalhistorian @AzizaAhmed @LewisGrossman @DanErnst1 pic.twitter.com/b9konIHgN0
— Elizabeth D. Katz (@elizabethdkatz) November 10, 2018
Ed Balleisen at his book panel on fraud in Am. legal history #ASLH2018: why did people complain in certain fraudulent situations vs. just be "silent suckers"?
— Mitra Sharafi (@mjsharafi) November 10, 2018
@AzizaAhmed on feminist activism in early AIDS crisis; @legalhistorian on use of X-rays to determine crim responsibility in British Empire; @LewisGrossman on history of medical marijuana advocacy; @AlixRogers123 on development of quasi-property status of human remains #ASLH2018
— Kristin Olbertson (@KOlbertson) November 10, 2018
*Loved* the fascinating talks on histories of law & medicine by @AzizaAhmed, @legalhistorian, @LewisGrossman, & @AlixRogers123, alongside Keith Wailoo’s sharp insights on law & uncertainty in sci, w @dbqur. #ASLH2018
— Haris Durrani (@hdernity) November 10, 2018
Margaret McGlynn of @WesternU explains how records digitized by the @AALTnews project can help in tracking convict clerks through time and space. #ASLH2018 #digitalhistory pic.twitter.com/0ThytlaoA9
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 10, 2018
Prof. @LizPappKamali of @Harvard_Law talks about the great advantages of @AALTnews for research on English legal history. #ASLH2018 #digitalhistory https://t.co/y1eBaeAd1v pic.twitter.com/ZjRwvCVgE2
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 10, 2018
Celebrating @UHLAW Professor Robert Palmer and his invaluable work on the @AALTnews website, at #ASLH2018 in Houston. #digitalhistory #englishlegalhistory https://t.co/y1eBaeiBCV pic.twitter.com/tmsIeYMWKQ
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 10, 2018
Congrats @natasha_wheatl! #ASLH2018 https://t.co/3OXYA0cfFc
— Gautham Rao (@gauthamrao) November 10, 2018
Prof. Sarah Barringer Gordon announces the award of the 2018 Sutherland Prize to Dr. Tom Lambert of @CamHistory, for his article “Jurisdiction as Property in England, 900-1100.” #ASLH2018 pic.twitter.com/4ivZsA8yuA
— Selden Society (@SeldenSociety) November 10, 2018
Getting ready to live tweet this #ASLH2018 panel, on "the making of modern equality law inside and outside of courts." Looks great! https://t.co/j5Zjo9zNd5
— Karen Tani, JD/PhD (@kmtani) November 10, 2018
Now up at #ASLH2018: "The Making of Modern Equality Law… Legacies of US 20th c. Socio-Legal History," feat. Reva Siegel (Yale), Julie Suk (CUNY), @katie_eyer (Rutgers), Ofra Block (Yale), w/ a comment from @PennLaw's Serena Mayeri (1/n)
— Karen Tani, JD/PhD (@kmtani) November 10, 2018
Many, many congratulations to my dear @Princeton classmate, Jane Manners, and my old roomie from #ASLH SRC, @MyishaSEatmon as this year's #ASLH2018 Preyer Prize winners!!! 🎉🍾 Hear them give their papers now! pic.twitter.com/6eIUoe3Gth
— Emily Prifogle (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 10, 2018
Paul Brand on demographically unusual dower cases, Tomas Gomez-Arostegui on 18th C patent litigation, Margaret McGlynn on pursuing convict clerks, & @LizPappKamali on intoxication in felony cases, w/ commentary from the inimitable Charlie Donahue. #ASLH2018 1/
— Kristin Olbertson (@KOlbertson) November 10, 2018
Very excited to hear Sally Gordon’s announcement about a new #ASLH award for digital legal history projects in honor of the queen of digital and public legal history, @marydudziak, who last year was named an honorary fellow! #ASLH2018 https://t.co/bsl13DshEa
— Emily Prifogle (@EmilyAPrifogle) November 10, 2018
Just finished a brilliant panel on #originalism at #ASLH2018 including @StanfordLawHist colleagues @MeylerBernie and @TheGNapp! @StanfordLaw @StanfordHistory pic.twitter.com/0BdbfobkMg
— Stanford Center for Law and History (@StanfordLawHist) November 10, 2018
Also many amazing talks by @StanfordLaw and @StanfordHistory colleagues yesterday, including @RabiaBelt along with fellow Bay Area #twitterstorian @kmtani. #legalhistory #ASLH2018 pic.twitter.com/VgDcJz3NpH
— Stanford Center for Law and History (@StanfordLawHist) November 10, 2018
Great to catch up with my friend @marioacajas at #ASLH2018! pic.twitter.com/Or1shlhpEY
— Joshua C. Tate (@JCTate1215) November 10, 2018
Transgender advocates pushed gay and lesbian rights groups to expand their legal agendas, but the creation of the LGBT movement left questions about strategy and prioritization unresolved. You can read the paper at https://t.co/tLT08Lvua3. #ASLH2018 https://t.co/VaAR0kfwbM
— Marie-Amélie George (@ProfMAGeorge) November 10, 2018
Listening to yet another brilliant talk by my colleague @KaraWSwanson on gender, "inventiveness", and patents. #aslh2018
— Aziza Ahmed (@AzizaAhmed) November 10, 2018
Fantastic papers from @MyishaSEatmon and Jane Manners, this year’s Preyer winners! #ASLH2018
— Joanna Grisinger (@jlgrisinger) November 10, 2018
Congratulations to new #ASLH Honorary Fellow @agordonreed! https://t.co/QbZX2bVFG1
— mary dudziak (@marydudziak) November 11, 2018
#ASLH2018 was fantastic, stimulating, rejuvenating. Many thanks to everyone who made it possible behind the scenes & to the wonderful speakers who shared their work. I'm all the more inspired to pursue mine in new, exciting ways.
— Haris Durrani (@hdernity) November 11, 2018
Another great panel @ #ASLH2018. Thanks to @kmtani and @EmilyAPrifogle for heroically live-tweeting the conference. https://t.co/aTOFt7SV6l
— Redburn (@kateredburn) November 11, 2018
Congrats to Cynthia Nicoletti on winning the #ASLH2018 Cromwell prize for Secession on Trial! That’s 2 years running for @cambUP_History, after @kmtani winning in 2017. @womnknowhistory
— Debbie Gershenowitz (@DGershenowitz) November 11, 2018
Congratulations to our own Amalia Kessler for winning the John Phillip Reid Book Award at #ASLH2018, for Inventing American Exceptionalism:
The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877! #legalhistory @StanfordLaw— Stanford Center for Law and History (@StanfordLawHist) November 11, 2018
The Student Research Colloquium at the #ASLH2018 was one the best things I’ve done in graduate school. If you’re legal history adjacent I highly recommend applying for it.
— cnh (@caseyhedstrom) November 11, 2018
Traveling home from #ASLH2018 with happy memories of fruitful #legalhistory conversations and gratitude for Bob Palmer’s vision in creating AALT, making English legal history archives accessible worldwide. #aaltnews #medievaltwitter pic.twitter.com/KQ0m88JVfQ
— Liz Papp Kamali (@LizPappKamali) November 11, 2018
Congratulations to Professor @marydudziak on being honored with the creation of a new #ASLH award for digital legal history projects in her name at the recent #ASLH2018 conference. https://t.co/D8HayfTwn1
— Emory Law (@EmoryLaw) November 12, 2018
Congratulations to @NMaggor, whose brilliant article in @ahr_editor "To Coddle & Caress These Great Capitalists: Eastern Money, Frontier Populism, and the Politics of Market-Making in the American West" was awarded the William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize at #aslh2018
— Daniel J. Sharfstein (@dsharfstein) November 12, 2018
CONGRATS to Tom Lambert of @CamHistory / @SidneySussex 👏👏👏
Tom has been awarded the Sutherland Prize for his article 'Jurisdiction as Property in England, 900-1100' ➡️ aka the '#best article on #English #LegalHistory published in the previous year' #MedievalTwitter #ASLH2018 https://t.co/7Mx6uykcKZ
— Camedieval (@camedieval) November 12, 2018
Congratulations to Cynthia Nicoletti for winning the Cromwell Book Prize for her work “Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis.” https://t.co/4OLosW3asE @UVALaw #ASLH2018 @UVA_History pic.twitter.com/8xzHJNSIRz
— Nau Civil War Center (@NauCivilWar) November 13, 2018