Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize

Criteria

Excellence in digital legal history.

Amount

$250

Deadline

June 1, 2024

The Dudziak Prize, named in honor of Mary L. Dudziak, a leading scholar of twentieth century U.S. legal history and international relations as well as a digital history pioneer, is awarded annually to an outstanding digital legal history project. These projects may take the form of either traditionally published peer reviewed scholarship or born-digital projects of equivalent depth and scope.

Preference will be given to projects that either (1) have a published component in 2022, (2) have gone live online in 2022, or (3) have implemented major updates or upgrades in 2022. The cover letter should highlight significant developments in the project during 2022.

The annual deadline for nominations or self-nominations for the Dudziak Prize is June 1. Submission materials should include (1) a cover letter that explains the nature and significance of the work for the field of legal history; (2) the nominated work, including (if relevant) information about how to access the work online; and (3) a curriculum vitae of the author/creator (including e-mail address).

Please email nominations and self nominations to dudziakprize@aslh.net. You may also email any questions to the prize chair at this same address.

Committee Members

  • David Tanenhaus (chair)
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Katrina Jagodinsky
    University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  • Kellen Funk
    Columbia Law School

  • Mitra Sharafi
    ex officio, President-elect
    University of Wisconsin

Past Recipients

2023

Justin Simard

The Citing Slavery Project

2022

Rowan Dorin

Corpus Synodalium https://corpus-synodalium.com/

2021

Robert Lee

Land Grab Universities https://www.landgrabu.org/

2020

Sean Fraga

"They Came on Waves of Ink: Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade at the Dawn of American Settlement, 1851-1861," https://seanfraga.com/wavesofink/

2019

Co-winner: O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law and Family

http://earlywashingtondc.org/

2019

Co-winner: The Scottish Court of Sessions Digital Archive

http://scos.law.virginia.edu/