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.
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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
SIMON STERN
Law and English, University of Toronto
Editor, Law, Culture and Humanities Journal
AUSTIN SARAT
Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College
Secretary
Sara Ramshaw
Law, University of Victoria
LISTSERV Moderator
SUSAN HEINZELMAN
English and Women’s Studies, University of Texas
2024 Host Committee Chair
Julen Etxabe
Law , University of British Columbia
organizing committee members
Susanna Blumenthal,
Law and History, University of Minnesota Law School
ruth buchanan,
Osgoode Hall Law School
Bennett Capers,
Fordham Law School
SAMERA ESMEIR,
Rhetoric, Berkeley
Sora Han,
University of California – Irvine
Hyo Yoon Kang,
Law, Kent Law School
Elena Loizidou,
Birkbeck School of Law
Naomi Mezey,
Georgetown Law School
Ravit reichman,
English, Brown University
Jill Stauffer,
Haverford College
Treasurer
daniel lachance
History, Emory University
Web & Communications
GENEVIEVE R. PAINTER
Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
2024 Program Committee co-Chairs
Ruth Buchanan
Osgoode Hall Law School
Catherine Evans
Criminology, University of Toronto
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
2020-2023
Martha M. Umphrey
Amherst College
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