Continuing our tradition of recapping the prizes and awards announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, this post features the 2024 winners of the Kathryn T. Preyer award. About the award:
Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to early career legal historians, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers. At the annual meeting of the Society two early career legal historians designated Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will present what would normally be their first papers to the Society.
This year's awards went to Christen Hammock Jones (University of Pennsylvania) for "Consuming Abortion On Demand: Medicine, Law, & Consumer Rights After Roe V. Wade" and to Grace Watkins (Yale University) for "'Incurable Entanglement': The Hybrid Powers of Campus Police."
As is customary, the winners presented their work at the annual meeting. Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) and Anna Lvovsky (Harvard Law School) provided comments.
Congratulations to Christen Hammock Jones and to Grace Watkins!
-- Karen Tani
