A conference price of $199 has been negotiated and the ASLH must respect a minimum number of nights booked. The Standing Committee of Annual Meetings and the Treasurer of the ASLH negotiate with hotels several years in advance and strive for the lowest possible prices. If you book rooms outside the group block or use other accommodation, the company may face heavy penalties if it does not respect its guarantee. The officers and the Board of Directors ask you to spend the night at the conference hotel. Note that the deadline for a room reservation is Wednesday, October 19 at 5pm. Thanks to the conference sponsors: Carson McDowell, Solicitors, Belfast; Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte; Law Societies of Ireland and Northern Ireland; Irish Bar Association; Northern Ireland Bar Association; Advisers to the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland. The ASLH naturally expects all attendees to comply with Chicago Public Health Orders in effect at the time of the Annual Meeting. The ASLH Health Committee will continue to monitor and assess conditions as well as CDC guidelines, and consider other steps we can take to mitigate the risks of attending the conference. By registering for the conference, you agree to abide by the ASLH AHA Standards of Professional Conduct: aslh.net/professional-conduct-at-aslh-events/ There is also a small section on legal history awards. In 2022, the annual conference returns to Chicago for the first time since 2001, and pre-registration is now open. We will be meeting at the Chicago Grand Sheraton from November 10-12 and look forward to announcing more details about the meeting as they become available.

We hope you will make plans to join us! The updated conference program is now available from the toolbar above. We hope to publish the program on the conference website in October 2021. Contact details of plenary speakers will also be included in due course. Proposals from postgraduate researchers and young researchers are welcome. is an international academic society dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and teaching in the many fields of legal history around the world. If only one conference registration is cancelled by May 2nd by the person who made the booking, the registration fee will be refunded, but for individual cancellations made after May 2nd, the registration fee will not be refunded. Travelers to Chicago can choose to land at O`Hare International Airport (ORD) or Midway International Airport (MDW). Southwest Airlines is the dominant airline at Midway Airport. Both are a 30-60 minute drive from the conference hotel, depending on traffic.

A taxi from the airport to the hotel costs between $35 and $55, depending on the time of day. There are taxi ranks in each terminal. Ride-sharing services (Uber, Lyft, etc.) are also available at the airport. Follow the signs for designated pickup areas in your terminal. Expect to spend between $13 and $60 on carpooling, again depending on traffic. If you prefer to take a shuttle, Airport Express offers a package ride to the hotel from O`Hare ($30) or Midway ($27). To take the shuttle back to the airport, make a reservation with the hotel concierge ($30). More information on Belfast travel, accommodation, etc. will be published on the conference website during the period 2021-2022: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/BLH-Conference-2022/ Those attending the upcoming ASLH conference should consider attending the ASLH pre-conference event “Children and the Law: A Conference in Honour of Michael Grossberg”. This second joint BLHC-ILHS conference was proposed by Sir Anthony Hart.

retired Supreme Court judge, former president of the ILHS and enthusiastic supporter of BLHC, who died suddenly in July 2019. During the 2022 conference, a poster contest is planned in tribute to Tony. There are two awards, including one for the RMP/Early Career category. The prizes are generously funded by the Journal of Legal History and the Irish Legal History Society. Competition details will be posted on the conference website. Registration is open for Masculinities and Law in Premodern Europe, a free online conference taking place November 15-17, 2022 EST. Masculinities and Law in Premodern Europe is based on the history of masculinities; studies on women and the law; History of law; gender history; and Feminist Jurisprudence for the Study of Masculinities, Law and the Legal Professions in the Premodern European World, c.1100-c.1700. The conference presents a rich and exciting programme covering different regions, jurisdictions and interdisciplinary approaches. The ASLH has created new fellowships to honour outstanding scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the field of legal history. We recommend early registration.

Registration is open until 7 p.m. October 2022 fully refundable The Wallace Johnson First Book program brings together 6 authors of first books in even-numbered years. The program meets throughout the year, first at the ASLH Annual Meeting and then over the next 12 months, both virtually and in person, culminating in a whirlwind session at the following Annual Meeting. The next Johnson program will take place in 2022. The Chicago area is home to a vibrant and robust legal history community that includes numerous law schools, history departments, and research centers. We hope you will find time during your stay to visit some of the area`s remarkable libraries, archival collections and museums. The Newberry Library, with its extensive collections and beautiful buildings, is less than a mile from the hotel. The conference registration fee is £160 and includes all receptions and the planned tour of the Parliament Buildings in Stormont. Conference meals are not included: participants can, if they wish, book dinner for an extra charge of £50 per person. The student fee for registration is £120. Abstracts are invited to the 25th BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY CONFERENCE, co-organised by the Irish Legal History Society and organised by Queen`s University Belfast, from Wednesday 6 July to Saturday 9 July 2022. The conference was originally scheduled for 2021.

Queen`s, Belfast, had the honour of hosting the BLHC in 2021 as it is an important year in the “decade of centenarians” in Ireland, North and South, marking both the centenary of the opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in June 1921 and the signing of the Articles of Agreement for the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921. which led to the creation of the Irish Free State. “It`s hopeless for the casual visitor to try to follow Chicago. He grows beyond his prophecies faster than he can do them,” Mark Twain wrote in 1883. The history of the city includes a rich catalogue of stories and conflicts: the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812; the presidential nomination of Abraham Lincoln in 1860; the Great Fire of 1871; the Haymarket case of 1886; the 1893 Colombian World`s Fair; and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, to name a few. Notable Chicagoland personalities include Jean Baptiste Point du Sable; Stephen A. Douglas; Ida B. Wells; Jane Addams; Clarence Darrow; Lorraine Hansberry; John Paul Stevens; and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Fort Dearborn and du Sables trading posts, as well as the water tower, are a few blocks from the conference hotel. The Bar and Law Society of Northern Ireland accredited the conference for CPD purposes: please email Norma Dawson for more information on CPD grants: n.dawson@qub.ac.uk The hotel registration link is included in the conference registration confirmation email. Conference papers can examine the relationship between the law and constitutional amendment from a historical perspective.

The difficulty of defining constitutional amendments was highlighted by the Special Committee on Constitutional Change in its report The Process of Constitutional Change (HL Paper 177, 2011, para. 10), but they gave several examples, but were not exhaustive: parliamentary sovereignty; the rule of law and the rights and freedoms of individuals; the State of the Union; representative government; and membership in international organisations such as (then) the EU and the Commonwealth. Of course, these are just examples and the theme of the conference is interpreted in all its magnitude.