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
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
2022 Host Committee Chair
daniel lachance
History, Emory University
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
2022 Program Committee Co-Chairs
JILL STAUFFER
Peace, Justice and Human Rights, Haverford College
SARA KENDALL
Law, University of Kent
Graduate Workshop Committee Chair
MARK ANTAKI
Law, McGill University
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