The 2021 J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Law School and the American Society for Legal History, runs June 13-26, 2021. The faculty co-hosts are Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Pennsylvania) and Lauren Benton (Yale University). The Hurst Institute will be virtual this year.
Here are the 2021 Hurst Fellows:
- Lauren Catterson (Hendrik Hartog/Princeton University Fellow), PhD candidate, University of Toronto
- Jon Connolly (Morton Horwitz Fellow), Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Hardeep Dhillon (Harry Scheiber Fellow), ABF-NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality
- Zachary Herz (Charles McCurdy/University of Virginia Law School Fellow), Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
- Naama Maor (Mary Frances Berry Fellow), Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
- Ángela Pérez-Villa (Rebecca Scott Fellow), Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
- Sarath Pillai (Hurst Alumni Fellow), PhD candidate, University of Chicago
- Jake Subryan Richards (David Seipp Fellow in English Legal History), Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
- Geneva Smith (Robert Gordon Fellow), PhD candidate, Princeton University
- Lila Teeters (William Nelson Fellow), recently completed PhD, University of New Hampshire
- Lauren MacIvor Thompson (Reva Siegel Fellow), Lecturer, Perimeter College
- Kent Weber (Barbara Welke Fellow), Post-doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
You can read more about the fellows and their research projects here.
As the Hurst Institute's website explains, "the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History is a biennial event sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies (UW Law School) in conjunction with the American Society for Legal History (ASLH). Each Hurst Institute is organized and chaired by a well-known legal historian and includes visiting senior scholars who lead specialized sessions."
Congratulations to all!
--Mitra Sharafi
