THE SLSA ARTICLE PRIZE
The SLSA 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 open on 15 July 2026 and close on 6 October 2026.
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 Tuesday in October 2026.
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.
FAQs
WINNERS
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
2019
Marie Fox & Michael Thomson
Bodily integrity, embodiment, and the regulation of parental choice
(2017) Journal of Law and Society 44(4): 501–531
2019
Máiréad Enright
'No. I won’t go back’: national time, trauma and legacies of symphysiotomy in Ireland’
(2019) in S M Benyon-Jones and E Grabham (eds), Law and Time, Routledge, 46–74