THE SOCIO-LEGAL ARTICLE PRIZE
The Socio-Legal Article Prize is awarded each year to an outstanding article published in a journal or as a book chapter. The £100 prize is funded by the SLSA membership.
Nominations for 2025 are now closed. Nominations for 2026 will reopen next summer.
NOMINATIONS
An article prize, open to all SLSA members, 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 winner is announced at the SLSA Annual Conference and receives £100. The closing date for nominations is the first Monday in October each year.
All nominees and nominators must be current members in good standing of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
Nominations must be made via our online form. Note: if you need the rules or the form in an alternative, accessible format, please contact the SLSA Administrator.
WINNERS
2022
Nafay Choudhury
Order in the Bazaar: the transformation of non-state Law in Afghanistan’s premier money exchange market
(2021) Journal of Law and Society 48(4): 497–523
2021
Helen Stalford & Kathryn Hollingsworth
'This case is about you and your future': towards judgments for children
(2020) Modern Law Review 85(3): 1030–1058
2020
Jane Scoular, Jane Pitcher, Teela Sanders, Rosie Campbell & Stewart Cunningham
Beyond the gaze and well beyond Wolfenden: the practices and rationalities of regulating and policing sex work in the digital age
(2019) Journal of Law and Society 46(2): 211–239