We recently received a reminder of one of the advantages of membership in the American Society for Legal History. Some years back, the ASLH decided to supplement and, to a certain extent, supplant, “author-meets-reader” sessions at its annual meeting, with the virtual series Making Connections: New Works in Legal History. Anyone may Zoom in, but only ASLH members may access the recordings.
'This academic year’s lineup is quite impressive: Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship—African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants (Oxford University Press, 2026); Gautham Rao, White Power: Policing American Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2026); Melissa Crouch, The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar (Oxford University Press, 2025); Rohit De and Ornit Shani, Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History (Cambridge University Press, 2025); Rachel A. Shelden, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History (University of North Carolina Press, 2026); Ari Z. Bryen, The Judgment of the Provinces: The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2026); Barbara Young Welke, Writing with Fire: The Cowboy Suit Tragedy and the Course of a Life (University of Chicago Press, 2026); Sonia Tycko, Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2026); Jill Elaine Hasday, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2025); Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery (Princeton University Press, 2027). The interlocutors are just as good as the books.
