Brewer Article Wins ASLH Prize

Brewer Article on Common Law and Slavery Wins Sutherland Prize

Burke Professor of History Holly Brewer has been awarded the 2022 Sutherland Article Prize from the American Society for Legal History. The article, titled "Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New  World Empire," was published in Law and History Review 39.4 ( 2021): 765-834. The Sutherland Prize is named in honor of the late Donald W. Sutherland, a distinguished historian medieval English law. The Prize is awarded annually "to the person or persons who wrote the best article on the legal history of Britain and/or the British Empire published in the previous year."