About LCH

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically oriented legal scholarship.

Conference

Join the LCH conversation on 22 – 23 June 2023.

About the Organization

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is a global, interdisciplinary academic society dedicated to fostering humanities-oriented legal scholarship and teaching.  We bring together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, career stages, and geographical regions.  LCH is deeply committed to creating equitable and inclusive spaces that sustain and promote colleagues whose work embodies and forwards anti-subordination principles and practices.

Founded in 1997, LCH convenes annual meetings and sponsors a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal, Law, Culture, and the Humanities.  At our annual meetings, scholars hailing from across the globe engage in conversations about law from a wide variety of humanities-oriented disciplinary perspectives.  We confer a number of prizes to recognize the best scholarship in our field.  To support and promote younger law and humanities scholars, we also organize an annual Graduate Student Workshop, which provides graduate students an intimate venue in which to discuss their research projects with senior scholars in the field.

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Organizing Committee

President

MARTHA M. UMPHREY

Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College

Editor, Law, Culture and Humanities Journal

AUSTIN SARAT

Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College

Secretary

SIMON STERN

Law and English, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

LISTSERV Moderator

SUSAN HEINZELMAN

English and Women’s Studies, University of Texas

2023 Host Committee Chairs

Simon Stern

Law and English, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Cheryl Suzack

English, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

organizing committee members

Susanna Blumenthal,

Law and History, University of Minnesota Law School

Bennett Capers,

Fordham Law School

SAMERA ESMEIR,

Rhetoric, Berkeley

Hyo Yoon Kang,

Law, Kent Law School

Naomi Mezey,

Georgetown Law School

Sara Ramshaw,

Law, University of Victoria

Ravit reichman,

English, Brown University

Treasurer

daniel lachance

History, Emory University

Web & Communications

GENEVIEVE R. PAINTER

Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University

2023 Program Committee Co-Chairs

Ravit reichman

English, Brown University

patricio boyer

Hispanic Studies, Davidson College

Graduate Workshop Committee Chair

MARK ANTAKI

Law, McGill University

Awards Committee

Susanna Blumenthal (chair)

Law and History, University of Minnesota Law School

Samera Esmeir

Rhetoric, Berkeley

Past Presidents

2016-2019

Karl Shoemaker

University of Wisconsin

2013-2016

James Martel

San Francisco State University

2010-2013

Linda Ross Meyer

Quinnipiac University

2007-2010

Keith Bybee

Syracuse University

2004-2007

Susan Sage Heinzelman

University of Texas, Austin

2000-2004

Austin Sarat

Amherst College