Current and Former Berger-Howe Fellows
Since 2005, Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellows have gone on to amazing careers in the legal academy. Among the alumni and alumnae of the program are tenured professors at the top law schools in the United States. The following table provides detailed information about the current work of former fellows.
2019-20 Berger-Howe Fellow
Lael Weinberger
Lael Weinberger is the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow for 2019-2020. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where he studies American legal history. Lael earned a JD with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for Chief Justice Daniel Eismann on the Idaho Supreme Court. Lael is currently writing a dissertation on American lawyers’ ideas about international law, world order, and human rights in the first half of the twentieth century. His research interests include constitutional law, international law, civil procedure, law and religion, and the legal profession.
| Berger-Howe Fellow | Fellowship Year(s) | Current Position |
| William P. Sullivan | 2018-2019 | Drinan Research Fellow Boston College Law School |
| Marie-Amelie George | 2017-2018 | Assistant Professor of Law Wake Forest School of Law |
| Nikolas Bowie | 2016-2017 | Assistant Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Adam Lebovitz | 2015-2016 | WYNG Research Fellow in Political Theory and Philosophy University of Cambridge |
| Maeve Glass | 2014-2015 | Associate Professor of Law Columbia Law School |
| Sara Mayeux | 2013-2014 | Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of History Vanderbilt Law School |
| Peter C. Pihos | 2012-2013 | Assistant Professor of History Western Washington University |
| Sam Erman | 2011-2012 | Professor of Law USC Gould School of Law |
| Jedidiah Kroncke | 2010-2011 | Associate Professor Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong |
| Deborah Dinner | 2009-2010 | Associate Professor of Law Emory University School of Law |
| Kara Swanson | 2008-2009 | Professor of Law Northeastern University School of Law |
| Cynthia Nicoletti | 2007-2008 | Professor of Law University of Virginia School of Law |
| R. Owen Williams | 2007-2008 | President Associated Colleges of the South |
| Diana I. Williams | 2006-2007 | |
| Daniel I. Sharfstein | 2005-2006 | Professor of Law and Professor of History Vanderbilt Law School |
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