Anne Fleming Article Prize

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) and the Business History Conference (BHC) have agreed to establish the Anne Fleming Article Prize. 

The sudden and unexpected death of Anne Fleming in August 2020 was a tragic loss to academia. Anne's work was at the interface of legal and business history. The central concerns in Anne’s work related to poverty, economic justice, finance and banking, debt, consumer protection, bankruptcy, and other questions of financial equity.  

The prize is awarded every other year to the author or authors of the best article published in the previous two years in either Law and History Review or Enterprise and Society on the relation of law and business/economy in any region or historical period. It is awarded on the recommendation of the editors of the Law and History Review (the official journal of ASLH) and Enterprise and Society (the official journal of Business History Conference). No submission is necessary. The prize will be awarded in 2022, for work published in 2020 and 2021. The prize is for the amount of $250. 

Anne Fleming

2024 Anne Fleming Article Prize Recipient


Gerardo Con Diaz
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies
"Patent Law and the Materiality of Inventions in the California Oil Industry: The Story of Halliburton v. Walker, 1935–1946," Enterprise & Society (January 2023) [View PDF]

Honorable Mention:

Nora Slonimsky, "‘To Save the Benefit of the Act of Parliament’: Mapping an Early American Copyright," Law and History Review, Volume 40, Issue 4 (2022).