:: MEMBERSHIP ::

The American Society for Legal History offers numerous benefits for scholars of legal history. The society holds annual conferences to foster intellectual development in legal history worldwide. While the organization is primarily based within the United States, its membership and its scope are international.

Members receive Law & History Review, America's leading legal history journal as well as access to back issues online at historycooperative.org and JSTOR. The journal covers Anglo-American, Continental, ancient, and comparative legal history. Society members also enjoy a 30% discount on the regular price of books in the Studies in Legal History series.

Update Your Membership Profile

Charlie Donahue continues to urge members to update their profiles on the membership directory that is maintained at the University of Illinois Press .  “We are in particular need of current email addresses of the members, since this is the most efficient method for us to communicate with you,” Donahue said.  “Also, many of the fields of interest that you checked on the membership application form when you joined are now out of date.”  The directory is searchable by members (by name, location, or fields of interest, etc.) by going to http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/lhr/directory/directory.html.  To update your information go down to the bottom of the search page and click on “Log into the update area.”  In order to change your data you need to have your member number, which appears above your name on the mailing label of the Law and History Review.

Members also receive our semi-annual newsletter. Newsletters offer information about upcoming conferences, awards in legal history, as well as opportunities within the field.

Membership Rates:

Annual Income	Rate
below $50,000	$60.00
$50,000-74,999	$70.00
$75,000-99,999	$80.00
$100,000-124,999	$90.00
$125,000-149,999	$100.00
$150,000 and above	$125.00
Institutions [per year]	$100.00

Special Rates:
Student, Emeritus $20
Life member $1000

Non-US residents and institutions please add $10 to these prices to cover overseas shipping of the journal.

We regret that beginning on January 1, 2009, individuals and institutions resident outside of North America will need to add $25 (rather than $10) to these prices to cover overseas shipping of the journal. A brief explanation is attached.

Online membership forms are available (please note these forms are also the subscription form for Law & History Review):

• for first time members
• for renewing members
(have your membership ID handy; it's on the mailing label of your copy of the LHR)

For an insitutional membership (e.g., a library) use the following forms:

• for first time members
• for renewing members

Alternatively you can print out the attached document (pdf), fill it out, and mail it with your check or credit-card information to the address given on the document.

If you have any questions regarding membership, contact the chair of our membership committee:

Professor Sally Hadden
Chair, Membership Committee,
  American Society for Legal History
409 Bellamy Building, Mail Code 2200
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
shadden@mailer.fsu.edu
Fax: 850-644-6402