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.
We are delighted to announce the shortlisted entries for 2012 below. The winners will be announced before the SLSA annual conference in Leicester in April 2012 and will take part in author-meets-reader sessions.
SLSA-Hart Prizes 2012: shortlists
SLSA–Hart Book Prize
Nicholas Blomley (2011) Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the regulation of public flow, Routledge/Glasshouse
David Fraser (2010) Daviborshch’s Cart: Narrating the Holocaust in Australian war crimes trials, University of Nebraska Press
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
Paddy Ireland, ‘Law and the neoliberal vision: financial property, pension privatisation and the ownership society’ (2011) NILQ 62:1–32
Kieran McEvoy, ‘What did the lawyers do during the “war”? Neutrality, conflict and the culture of quietism’ (2011) MLR 74:350–84
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 there has been a change to the rules recently: namely that from 2011 all entries must now be sent in in electronic format only. The closing date is Monday 1 October 2012. Following the success of the two author-meets-reader-sessions at the SLSA annual conferences 2010 and 2011, 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 electronic format ONLY should be sent by 1 October 2012 to Professor
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. 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.
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