[Here's another reason to join the American Society for Legal History: Members can virtually participate in this series on great new books in the field. DRE]
All sessions will be on Zoom Wednesdays from 6:00-7:00 pm (Central Time). We will send an email two weeks in advance of each event. You must RSVP to receive the zoom link. RSVP messages will be sent to membership approximately 1 week before the event. ASLH Members can watch videos of previous events on our members page
September 17, 2025 – Esther Liberman Cuenca, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England (Oxford University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Sara M. Butler
October 22, 2025 – Sonia Gomez, Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America (NYU Press, 2024) & Kathryn Schumaker, Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South (Basic Books, 2025)
December 10, 2025 – Marla A. Ramírez, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Kevin R. Johnson
January 21, 2026 – Omar Youssef Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Nurfadzilah Yahaya
February 25, 2026 – Tadashi Ishikawa, Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Jisoo M. Kim
March 25, 2026 – Serena Mayeri, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law (Yale University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Margot Canaday
April 15, 2026 – Kevin Arlyck, The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825 (Cambridge University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Alison LaCroix
