Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Student Research Colloquium Fellows

As part of our continuing series of posts covering the awards and honors announced at the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, here are the Society’s Student Research Colloquium Fellows for 2023:

Omar Abdel-Ghaffar, Harvard University, James Whitman/Yale Law School Fellow:
The Uncharitable Foundations of Mamluk Endowment
 
Siobhan Barco, Princeton University
Women, Power, and the Legal News, 1830-1930
 
Bonnie Cherry, University of California, Berkeley
“Little Kingdoms”: Leupp Isolation Center and Administrative Authority in Indian Country
 
Brianne Felsher, University of California, Berkeley, Herbert A. Johnson Fellow:
“A Legal Form of Marriage”: The Legality of Queer Families in the United States, 1830-1920
 
Anin Luo, Princeton University
Empathizing beyond Humanity: The 1970s Emergence of Personhood for Animals and the Environment
 
Robyn Morse, University of Virginia, John Wertheimer/Davidson College Fellow:
Enterprising Value: Labor Transitions and Legal Maneuvers During the Rise of the Oil Economy in Bahrain
 
Wallace Teska, Stanford University, William Novak/University of Michigan Law School Fellow:
Arbitrating Abolition: Law, Gender, and the End of Slavery in Côte d’Ivoire, 1900–1915
 
Daniel Vásquez Vega, University of Minnesota
When Statutes Come to Life: Industrial Accidents and the Judicial Transformation of Colombian Law (1897-1948)

--Dan Ernst