SLSA—Hart Socio-Legal Prizes

One of the SLSA's stated aims is to advance the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies. To that end, the Executive Committee of the SLSA invites nominations for its three annual prizes.

The 2012 winners are announced below. They will take part in author-meets-reader sessions at the SLSA annual conference in Leicester in April 2012

SLSA-Hart Prizes 2012

This year, in a very strong field, the book prize and the early career prizes are both shared.

SLSA—Hart Book Prize

  • Nicholas Blomley (2011) Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the regulation of public flow, Routledge/Glasshouse
  • Didi Herman (2011) An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness, and English Law, Oxford University Press

SLSA—Hart Prize for Early Career Academics

  • Prabha Kotiswaran (2011) Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour: Sex work and the law in India, Princeton University Press
  • Lisa Vanhala (2011) Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization, Cambridge University Press

Socio-Legal Article Prize

Kieran McEvoy, ‘What did the lawyers do during the “war”? Neutrality, conflict and the culture of quietism’ (2011) MLR 74:350–84

  • the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize

a book prize, open to all, for the most outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship published in the 12 months up to 30 September preceding the closing date for nominations

  • the Socio-Legal Article Prize

an article prize, open to all, for the most outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship published in the 12 months up to 30 September preceding the closing date for nominations

  • the Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics

a prize for the best book, published in the 12 months up to 30 September preceding the closing date for nominations, emerging from a previously awarded PhD, MPhil, LLB or MA

For a full list of previous winners, please see our prizewinners page.

Rules and nominations

Please note that entries must be in pdf format in ONE file per publication. The closing date is Monday 1 October 2012. Following the success of the recent author-meets-reader-sessions at the our annual conferences, winners of both prizes will be required to attend the conference and participate in discussions of their work.

There is a downloadable nomination form in Word format for each prize:

Nominations for the Early Career Prize should also fill in the Book Prize form and send both forms.

Completed nomination forms plus a version of the book or article in pdf format ONLY should be sent by 1 October 2012 to Professor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . All nominations should also be accompanied by a copy of an email from the author/authors consenting to the nomination and confirming that they can attend the author-meets-reader session at the SLSA annual conference in 2013.

If you have any queries about these prizes you should contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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