:: 1999 Board of Directors Meeting ::
Toronto, Ontario :: Sheraton Centre Hotel
Laura Kalman passed the baton as ASLH
president to Thomas A. Green, University of Michigan School of Law.
ASLH
members celebrated Laura's achievements in song.
Election Results
Results of the ASLH election were
announced.
The new president-elect is Robert Gordon,
Yale Law School.
New members for the Board of Directors:
Barbara Black, Columbia Law School, Dan Ernst, Georgetown Law Center,
Doug Hay, York University, Bill Nelson, NYU Law School, and Emily Van
Tassel, Indiana University Law School.
Vicky Woeste, American Bar Foundation,
has been elected a member of the Nominating Committee.
1999 Sutherland Prize
The winner of the 1999 Donald Sutherland
Prize "...for the best article in English legal history published in any
of the recognized journals during the previous year (1998)" is Dr. Peter
King (Nene College, Northampton, U.K.) for his article entitled "The
Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England, 1780-1840: Changing Patterns of
Perception and Prosecution," Past and Present 160 (August 1998):
116-166.
The committee praised Peter King's
"extraordinarily thorough range of documentation, persuasively based on
carefully analyzed quantitative court data.... Dr. King...revises our
understanding of this formative era and area of cirminal law, adding
significantly to what we know from the works of John Beattie, John
Langbein, Douglas Hay, and others. He identifies the ways by which
"juvenile delinquency" became a construct within criminal proceedings in
the common law. To do so, he reveals a masterly grasp of court records
and manuscript notes of magistrates and judges, within the
socio-political contexts in which criminal courts operated."
The committee also awarded an honorable
mention to Professor Richard J. Ross of Indiana University School of
Law, in Indianapolis, for his article, "The memorial Culture of Early
Modern English Lawyers: Memory as Keyword, Shelter, and Identity,
1560-1640," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 10 (Summer
1998): 229-326.
The committee urged that Ross's article
be read alongside his earlier article, "Printing English Law, 1520-1640"
(146 U. Penn.L.R 323) for a "comprehensive, synthetic charting of how
early modern England's legal culture secured, transported and lost its
laws, customary and common, oral and literal." In the 1998 article, Ross
"offers...an up-to-date, exhaustive analysis of 'memory jurisprudence,'
of the pros-and-cons argued then and since about printed precedential
authorities, and of the key roles all of this played in establishing the
further professionalization and independence of lawyers and judges."
1999 Surrency Prize
The Surrency Prize Committee split the
prize in volume 16 of the Law and History Review, between
Christine Desan, "Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of
Enpire: The Creation of Legislative Adjuication in Colonial New York,"
pp.257-317 and Michael Willrich, "The Two Percent Solution: Eugenic
Jurisprudence and the Socialization of American Law, 1900-1930, pp.
63-111.
The committee praised Desan's article as
"fascinating, materful, illuminating" with "a high degree of ability
both to unearth rich detail from archival materials and to present it in
an engaging way. The committee pointed out that Desan made "a major
contribution to the legal history literature by provoking important
questions about the implications of a dramatic episode of legislative
activity that crossed what we now regard to be the well-settled
boundaries of legislative function." The committee thought Desan
uncovered "something remarkable: legislators on United States soil
adjudicating claims. She thus brings to light a vicit example of legal
borrowing and distortion."
The committee thought "Willrich wrote a
path-breaking work. The thesis, that sociological jurisprudence had a
less known and darker side, is itself to be applauded, because it is at
once plausible, unsettling, and original." Willrich's research and
analysis, the committee reports, "are stunningly innovative" and
"illuminate the rich history that underlies Holmes' infamous opinion in
Buck v. Bell (1927) that unheld the constitutionality of compulsory
sterilization."
2000 Program Committee
Chuck McCurdy is chair of the Program
Committee for the 2000 Meeting at Princeton.
The committee members are as follows:
Ariela Dubler, graduate student, Yale
Willy Forbath, Law, Texas
Jim Gordley, Law Berkeley
Janet Loengard, History, Moravian
Eben Moglen, Law, Columbia
Joyce Malcolm, History, Bentley
Randy McGowen, History, Oregon
Richard Ross, Law, Indiana-Indianapolis
Bill Wiecek, Law, Syracuse
Stanley I. Kutler will deliver the annual
lecture at Princeton, speaking on "An Historian's Adventures with the
Law."
:: Officers and
Directors, 1998 ::
President: Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara
President-Elect: Thomas A. Green, University of Michigan
Secretary-Treasurer: Donald G. Nieman, Bowling Green State University
Board of Directors
Mary Sarah Bilder (2000),
Boston College
Carol Chomsky (1999), University of Minnesota
Robert J. Cottrol (2000), George Washington University
Cynthia Herrup (1999), Duke University
Harold M. Hyman (Immediate Past-President), Rice University
Craig Joyce (1999*), University of Houston
Michael de L. Landon (2000*), University of Mississippi
Maeva Marcus (1998), U. S. Supreme Court Historical Society
Arthur F. McEvoy (1998), University of Wisconsin, Madison
John P.S. McLaren (1999), University of Victoria
William J. Novak (1998), University of Chicago
John V. Orth (1999), University of North Carolina
David Rabban (2000), University of Texas
Carol Weisbrod (2000), University of Connecticut
Victoria Saker Woeste (1998), American Bar Foundation
Sandra F. Van Burkleo (1998*), Wayne State University
* Executive Committee
Member
Honorary Fellows of
the American Society for Legal History
Morris S. Arnold
Lawrence M. Friedman
Stanley N. Katz
Stephan G. Kuttner
Leonard W.Lvey
John T. Noonan, Jr.
John Philip Reid
A.W.B Simpson
Corresponding Fellows
of the American Society for Legal History
J.H. Baker
Raoul C. Van Caenegem
Helmut Coing
Ennio Cortese
Robert Feenstra
Jean Gaudemet
Peter Landau
Stroud F.C. Milsom
G.O. Sayles
Andre Tunc
1998 Program Committee
Daniel R. Ernst,
Georgetown University, Chair
Charles Donahue, Jr., Harvard University
Christian G. Fritz, University of New Mexico
Ariela J. Gross, University of Southern California
William J. Novak, University of Chicago
John Henry Schlegel, SUNY-Buffalo
Barbara Welke, University of Oregon
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
1998 Local
Arrangements Committee
Eric Chiappinelli,
University of Seattle, Chair
Megan McClintock, University of Washington
1999 Program Committee
Sarah Barringer Gordon,
University of Pennsylvania, Chair
Constance Backhouse, University of Western Ontario
Cornelia Hughes Dayton, University of Connecticut
Christine Desan, Harvard University
Tahirih Lee, Florida State University
Pnina Lahav, Boston University
William LaPiana, New York Law School
Victoria List, Washington & Jefferson College
Kenneth Mack, Princeton University
Gregory Mark, Rutgers University
Michael Millender, University of Florida
Richard Ross, University of Chicago
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Howard Venable, New York University
James Whitman, Yale University
1999 Local
Arrangements Committee
Peter Oliver, Osgoode
Society, Chair
Susan Lewthwaite, Law Society of Upper Canada Archives
Marilyn MacFarlane, Osgoode Society
Committee on
Documentary Preservation
Michael J. Churgin
University of Texas, Chair
Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California
Christian G. Fritz, University of New Mexico
Michael Griffith (1990), Office of the Clerk, U. S. District Court,
Northern District of California
DeLloyd J. Guth, University of Manitoba
J. Gordon Hylton, Marquette University
Harold M. Hyman, Rice University
Maeva Marcus, U. S. Supreme Court Historical Society
Gregory Mark, Rutgers University, Newark
R. Michael McReynolds, U. S. National Archives
Rayman L. Solomon, Northwestern University
Marsha Trimble, University of Virginia
Honors Committee
Herbert A. Johnson,
University of South Carolina, Chair
Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago
Linda Kerber, University of Iowa
Membership Committee
Victoria Saker Woeste,
American Bar Foundation, Chair
Carol Chomsky, University of Minnesota
Catherine Fisk, Loyola University
Daniel Ernst, ex officio (Chair, 1998 Program Committee)
Thomas Gallanis, Ohio State University
Robert Goldman, Virginia Union University
Kenneth Ledford, Case Western Reserve University
Laura Kalman, ex officio (President)
Fred Konefsky, SUNY-Buffalo
Randy McGowen, University of Oregon
Donald G. Nieman, ex officio (Secretary-Treasurer)
G. Edward White, University of Virginia
Nominating Committee
David Seipp (1998),
Boston University, Chair
Sarah Barringer Gordon (1999), University of Pennsylvania
Michael Grossberg (2000), Indiana University
Victoria List (2000), Washington and Jefferson College
Rayman Solomon (1998), Northwestern University
Standing Committee on
Conferences and the Annual Meeting
John P.S. McLaren,
University of Victoria, Chair
Christine A. Desan, Harvard University
Dwight Jessup, Taylor University
Eben Moglen, Columbia University
Kenneth Murchison, Louisiana State University
William E. Nelson, New York University
Frances Rudko, Southern New England School of Law
David S. Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Surrency Prize
Committee
Tahirih Lee, Florida
State University, Chair
W. Wesley Pue, University of British Columbia
Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago
Sutherland Prize
Committee
DeLloyd J. Guth,
University of Manitoba, Chair
Professor Janet Loengard, Moravian College
Professor Daniel Coquillette, Boston College
Publications Committee
M. Les Benedict, Ohio
State University, Chair
Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State University
Hendrik Hartog , Princeton University
Craig Joyce, University of Houston
Tahirih V. Lee, University of Minnesota
Bruce Mann, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Christopher Waldrep, Eastern Illinois University
Editor of LAW AND
HISTORY REVIEW
Christopher Tomlins,
American Bar Foundation
Managing Editor of the ASLH Newsletter
Robert Samuel Smith,
Bowling Green State University
H-Law Moderators
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University
Christopher Waldrep, Eastern Illinois University
Co-Editors of
STUDIES IN LEGAL HISTORY
Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University
Thomas A. Green, University of Michigan
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Studies in Legal
History
C.H.S. Fifoot,
Frederick William Maitland: A Life. (1971)
Raoul Berger,
Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (1973)
The Autobiographical
Notes of Charles Evans Hughes, edited by David J. Danielski and
Joseph S. Tulchin. (1973)
John H. Langbein,
Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany and
France. (1974)
Raoul Berger,
Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth. (1974)
George Dargo,
Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions.
(1975)
William E. Nelson,
Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change On
Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830. (1975)
Maxwell H. Bloomfield,
American Lawyers in a Changing Society 1776-1876. (1976)
Morton J. Horwitz, The
Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. (1977)
Robert Stevens, Law
and Politics: The House of Lords as a Judicial Body, 1800-1976.
(1978)
Stephen D. White, Sir
Edward Coke and "The Grievances of the Commonwealth," 1621- (1979)
David Thomas Konig,
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629- (1979)
Richard A. Cosgrove,
The Rule of Law: Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian Jurist. (1980)
Michael S. Hindus,
Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in
Massachusetts and South Carolina 1767-1878. (1980)
Paul Finkelman, An
Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity. (1981)
Robert C. Means,
Underdevelopment and the Development of Law: Corporations And
Corporation Law in Nineteenth Century Columbia. (1980)
On the Law and Customs of
England: Essays in Honor of S. E. Thorne, edited by Morris S.
Arnold, Thomas A. Green, Sally A. Scully, and Stephen D. White.
(1981)
John Philip Reid, In
Defiance of the Law: The Standing-Army Controversy, the Two
Constitutions, and the Coming of the American Revolution. (1981)
G. Roeber, Faithful
Magistrates and Republican Lawyers, Creators of Virginia Legal
Culture, 1680-1810. (1981)
William E. Nelson,
Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Massachusetts,
(1981)
Lawrence M. Friedman and
Robert V. Percival, The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment
in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910. (1981)
Robert Stevens, Law
School: Legal Education in America from the 1850's to the 1980's.
(1983)
Hendrik Hartog, Public
Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New
York in American Law, 1730-1870. (1983)
R. Kent Newmyer,
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic.
(1986)
Norman Rosenberg,
Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel.
(1986)
Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in
Nineteenth Century America. (1985)
Marylynn Salman, Women
and the Law of Property in Early America. (1986)
Laura Kalman, Legal
Realism at Yale, 1927-1960. (1986)
Bruce H. Mann,
Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut.
(1987)
Stephen D. White,
Custom, Kinship, and Gifts to Saints: The Laudatio Parentum in
Western France, 1050-1150. (1988)
Emily Zack Tabuteau,
Transfers of Property in Eleventh Century Norman Law. (1988)
Allen Steinberg, The
Transformation of Criminal Justice: Prosecution, Politics and
Popular Life in
Philadelphia, 1800-1880. (1989)
Robert J. Steinfield,
The Invention of Free Labor in the United States. (1991)
James Oldham, The
Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the
Eighteenth Century. (1992)
Robert Palmer, English
Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of
Governance and Law. (1993)
Eileen Spring, Law,
Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to
(1993)
John Henry Schlegel,
American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science. (1995)
Richard F. Hamm,
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal
Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920. (1995)
Lucy E. Salyer, Laws
Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern
Immigration Law. (1995)
Peter W. Bardaglio,
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex and the Law in the
Nineteenth Century South. (1996)
Thomas D. Morris,
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. (1996)
William J. Novak, The
People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in 19th Century America.
(1996)
Peter Karsten, 'Heart'
Versus 'Head': The American Judiciary and the Rule of Common Law
and Equity in the Nineteenth Century. (1997)
Victoria Saker Woeste,
The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation
in Industrial America, 1865-1945. (1998)