Lists of officers and committee members for the past few years may be found here. A more comprehensive list of past presidents and other historical information about the Society (1983–2010) may be found on the page that lists past presidents and awards recipients.

The dates that accompany the names of officers, directors, and committee members reflect the calendar year of the previous annual meeting, when elections take effect, even if the appointment took place after the first of January.

Officers
President: Bruce H. Mann, Harvard University <email>
President-Elect: Michael Grossberg, University of Indiana <email>
Secretary: Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University <email>
Treasurer: Craig Evan Klafter <email>


Board of Directors
Gregory Ablavsky (graduate student representative) (2010), University of Pennsylvania <email>
Constance Backhouse (Immediate Past President), University of Ottawa (Canada) <email>
R. B. Bernstein (2011), New York Law School <email>
Tomiko Brown-Nagin (2010), Harvard University <email>
Lyndsay Campbell (2010*), University of Calgary (Canada) <email>
Margot Canaday (2012), Princeton University <email>
Christian G. Fritz (2011), University of New Mexico <email>
Daniel W. Hamilton (2011), University of Illinois <email>
Linda K. Kerber (2011), University of Iowa <email>
Amalia Kessler (2011*), Stanford University <email>
David Lieberman (2010), University of California, Berkeley <email>
Reuel Schiller (2012), Univeristy of California, Hastings <email>
Mitra Sharafi (2012), University of Wisconsin <email>
David S. Tanenhaus (2012*), University of Nevada, Las Vegas <email>
Karen Tani (2012), University of California, Berkeley <email>
Charles L. Zelden (2010), Nova Southeastern University <email>

* Executive Committee Member
() Indicates year elected. Terms of elected members of the Board are for three years. The terms expire at the end of the annual meeting.

COMMITTEES AND POSITIONS

Committee appointments for the calendar year 2013 are in the process of being made. A few are already listed below. The appointments for 2013 are listed below; otherwise, the information is from 2012. This list will be updated as new appointments are made.

ACLS Delegate
Constance Backhouse (2012), University of Ottawa (Canada) <email>

() Indicates year appointed

Standing Committee on Conferences and the Annual Meeting
Craig Joyce (2011), Chair, University of Houston <email>
Kevin Arlyck (2012), New York University <email>
R. B. Bernstein (2010), New York Law School <email>
Josiah Daniel III (2011), Vinson & Elkins LLP <email>
Craig Evan Klafter (ex officio) (Treasurer) <email>
Michael Grossberg (ex officio) (President-elect), Indiana University <email>
Polly J. Price (2012), Emory University <email>
William Suarez-Potts (2010), Kenyon College <email>

() Indicates year appointed

Advisory Committee on the Cromwell Prizes
John D. Gordan III (2010), Chair, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation <email>
Mary Sarah Bilder (2010), Boston College <email>
Alfred L. Brophy (2011), University of North Carolina <email>
Jane Dailey (2012), University of Chicago <email>
Laura Edwards (2011), Duke University <email>
Daniel R. Ernst (2010), Georgetown University <email>
Christian Fritz (2011), University of New Mexico <email>
Robert W. Gordon (2009), Stanford University <email>
Daniel W. Hamilton (2012), University of Illinois <email>
Laura Kalman (2010), University of California, Santa Barbara <email>
Maeva Marcus (2010), George Washington University <email>
Kristin A. Olbertson (2012), Alma College <email>
Michael Ross (2010), University of Maryland <email>

() Indicates year appointed

Committee on Documentary Preservation
Michael J. Churgin (2011), Chair, University of Texas <email>
Georgia Chadwick (2011), Law Library of Louisiana <email>
Mary Sarah Bilder (2012), Boston College <email>
Donald Fyson (2010), Laval University (Canada) <email>
Michael Griffith (2010), Santa Clara County Archivist, retired <email>
Keith Ann Stiverson (2011), ITT Chicago-Kent <email>
Michael Widener (2012), Yale University <email>

() Indicates year appointed

Committee on Finance
Thomas P. Gallanis (2010), Chair, University of Iowa <email>
Constance Backhouse (2012), University of Ottawa (Canada) <email>
Barbara Aronstein Black (2010), Columbia University <email>
Charles Donahue, Jr. (2010), Harvard University <email>
Thomas A. Green (2009), University of Michigan <email>
Michael Grossberg (ex officio) (President-Elect), University of Indiana <email>
Laura Kalman (2012), University of California, Santa Barbara <email>
Craig Evan Klafter (ex officio) (Treasurer) <email>
Carl Landauer (2010), General Counsel, LOYAL3 <email>
Bruce H. Mann (ex officio) (President), Harvard University <email>
Rayman L. Solomon (ex officio) (Chair, Committee on Projects and Proposals), Rutgers University, Camden <email>

() Indicates year appointed. Under the by-laws, the members of this committee serve for five-year terms.

Committee on Outreach to Graduate Students
John Wertheimer (2012), Chair, Davidson College <email>
Ananda Burra (2012), University of Michigan <email>
Catherine L. Evans (2012), Princeton University <email>
Patricia Minter (ex officio) (Chair, Membership Committee), Western Kentucky University <email>
Barbara Y. Welke (2012), University of Minnesota <email>

() Indicates year appointed. This is a new committee.

Moderators of H-Law
Charles L. Zelden, Lead Editor, Nova Southeastern University <email>
John Acevedo, Web Editor, University of Chicago <email>
Kenneth E. Aldous, Moderator, Independent Scholar <email>
Jerome S. Arkenberg, Moderator, Independent Scholar <email>
R. B. Bernstein, Moderator, New York Law School <email>
Jonathan Lurie, Moderator, Rutgers University, Newark <email>
Ethan Zadoff, Book Review Editor, City University of New York <email>
Carla Spivack, Moderator, Oklahoma City University <email>


Committee on Honors
Christopher Tomlins (2010), Chair, University of California, Irvine <email>
Constance Backhouse (2011), University of Ottawa <email>
Robert W. Gordon (2011), Stanford University <email>
Kenneth F. Ledford (2012), Case Western Reserve University <email>
Jim Phillips (2010), University of Toronto <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Committee on the Willard Hurst Memorial Fund
Elizabeth Hillman (2011), Chair, University of California, Hastings <email>
Lauren Benton (2012), New York University <email>
Fahad Bishara (2012), Harvard University <email>
Hendrik A. Hartog (ex officio) (Hurst Institute Leader), Princeton University <email>
Rebecca Mclennan (2012), University of California, Berkeley <email>
Dylan Penningroth (2012), Northwestern University <email>
Mitra Sharafi (2011), University of Wisconsin <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Editors, Law and History Review
Elizabeth Dale (Editor), University of Florida <email>
Felice Batlan, (Associate Editor [Book Reviews Americas]), IIT Chicago-Kent <email>
Will Hanley (Associate Editor [Book Reviews non-Americas]), Florida State University <email>

Committee on Local Arrangements (South Florida, 2013)
Charles L. Zelden, Chair, Nova Southeastern University <email>
Timothy Dixon, Nova Southeastern University <email>
Gary Gershman, Nova Southeastern University <email>
Robert M. Jarvis, Nova Southeastern University <email>
Stephen Levitt, Nova Southeastern University <email>
Victor Uribe, Florida International University <email>

(This Committee rotates every year. Additional members will join it.)


Committee on Membership
Patricia Minter (2011), Chair, Western Kentucky University <email>
Thomas J. Davis (2011), Arizona State University <email>
Tim Huebner (2010), Rhodes College <email>
Kelly Kennington (2010), Auburn University <email>
Craig Evan Klafter (ex officio) (Treasurer) <email>
Adam J. Kosto (2010), Columbia University <email>
Tahirih Lee (2010), Florida State University <email>
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater (2012), University of Chicago <email>
Cynthia Nicoletti (2012), Mississippi College <email>
Logan E. Sawyer III (2012), University of Georgia <email>
Reuel Schiller (2010), University of California, Hastings <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Committee on the Paul L. Murphy Awards
Mary L. Dudziak (2011), Chair, University of Southern California <email>
Robert Kaczorowski (2011), Fordham University <email>
Serena Mayeri (2011), University of Pennsylvania <email>
David M. Rabban (2011), University of Texas <email>

() Indicates year appointed. This is an ad hoc committee, which will serve for two years.


Nominating Committee
Michael Willrich (2012), Chair, Brandeis University <email>
Ariela Gross (2012), University of Southern California <email>
James C. Oldham (2010), Georgetown University <email>
Richard Ross (2010), Chair, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) <email>
Lucy Salyer (2011), University of New Hampshire <email>

() Indicates year elected. Terms on the Nominating Committee are for three years.


Committee on the Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial
Gautham Rao (2011), Chair, American University <email>
Sally Hadden (2010), Western Michigan University <email>
Christopher W. Schmidt (2010), Chicago-Kent College of Law <email>
Michael A. Schoeppner (2011), California Institute of Technology <email>
Karen Tani (2011), University of California, Berkeley <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Committee on the Program for the Annual Meeting (South Florida, 2013)
Intisar A. Rabb, Co-chair, New York University<email>
Karl B. Shoemaker, Co-chair, University of Wisconsin <email>
Lyndsay Campbell, University of Calgary (Canada) <email>
Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburgh<email>
Ada Maria Kuskowski, University of Wisconsin<email>
Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago<email>
Kristin Mann, Emory University<email>
Matthew C. Mirow, Florida International University <email>
Nicholas Parrillo, Yale University<email>
Lena Salaymeh, University of California, Berkeley <email>
Tim Stretton, St. Mary’s University, Halifax<email>
Allison Brownell Tirres, DePaul University <email>
John Wertheimer, Davidson College <email>
Diana Williams, University of Southern California <email>
Madeleine H. Zelin, Columbia University <email>

(This Committee rotates every year.)


Committee on Projects and Proposals
Rayman L. Solomon (2010), Chair, Rutgers University, Camden <email>
Alfred L. Brophy (2010), University of North Carolina <email>
Peter C. Caldwell (2012), Rice University <email>
Margot Canaday (2012), Princeton University <email>
Thomas P. Gallanis (ex officio) (Chair, Finance Committee), University of Iowa < email>
Philip Girard (2012), Dalhousie University (Canada) <email>
Michael Grossberg (ex officio) (President-elect), Indiana University <email>
Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University <email>
Elizabeth Hillman (ex officio) (Chair, Hurst Committee), University of California, Hastings <email>
Craig Evan Klafter (ex officio) (Treasurer) <email>
Bruce H. Mann (ex officio) (President), Harvard University <email>
Emily Margolis (2012), Duke University <email>
Rebecca J. Scott (2012) University of Michigan <email>
Daniel J. Sharfstein (2011), Vanderbilt University <email>
Christopher L. Tomlins (2012), University of California, Irvine <email>

() Indicates year appointed.


Committee on Publications
Michael Grossberg (2011), Chair, Indiana University <email>
Simon Baatz (2012), John Jay College of Criminal Justice <email>
Stuart Banner (2011), University of California, Los Angeles <email>
Holly Brewer (ex officio) (Editor, Studies in Legal History), University of Maryland <email>
Elizabeth Dale (ex officio) (Editor, Law & History Review), University of Florida <email>
Philip Girard (2010), Dalhousie University <email>
Sarah Barringer Gordon (ex officio) (Editor, Studies in Legal History), University of Pennsylvania <email>
Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan <email>
Craig Evan Klafter (ex officio) (Treasurer) <email>
Kenneth F. Ledford, (2010) Case Western Reserve University <email>
David Lieberman (2010), University of California, Berkeley <email>
Michael Lobban (ex officio) (Editor, Studies in Legal History), Queen Mary College, University of London (UK) <email>
Lena Salaymeh (2011), University of California, Berkeley <email>
Charles L. Zelden (ex officio) (Lead Moderator, H-Law), Nova Southeastern University <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award
Sophia Z. Lee (2011), Chair, University of Pennsylvania <email>
Catharine C. MacMillan (2010), Queen Mary College, University of London (UK) <email>
Richard J. Ross (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign <email>
Laura Weinrib (2011), University of Chicago <email>
Steven Wilf (2011), University of Connecticut <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Committee on Research Fellowships and Awards
Cornelia Dayton (2010), Chair, University of Connecticut <email>
Felicia Kornbluh (2011), University of Vermont <email>
Victoria D. List (2012), Washington and Jefferson College <email>
Bruce Mann (ex officio) (President), Harvard University <email>
William E. Nelson (2010), New York University <email>
Kunal Parker, University of Miami (2011) <email>
Victoria Saker Woeste (2012), American Bar Foundation <email>

() Indicates year appointed. This committee was formerly known as the Advisory Committee on the Cromwell Fellowships and the Committee on the Paul L. Murphy Award.


Editors, Studies in Legal History
Holly Brewer, University of Maryland <email>
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania <email>
Michael Lobban, Queen Mary College, University of London <email>

Committee on the Surrency Prize
David Abraham (2011), Chair, University of Miami <email>
Kristin A. Collins (2011), Boston University <email>
Matthew P. Harrington (2011), University of Montreal <email>
Elizabeth Kolsky (2011), Villanova University <email>
Kenneth F. Ledford (2010), Case Western Reserve University <email>

() Indicates year appointed


Committee on the Sutherland Prize
Joshua C. Tate (2011), Chair, Southern Methodist University <email>
Richard Helmholz (2010), University of Chicago <email>
Daniel M. Klerman (2012), University of Southern California <email>

() Indicates year appointed