
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
2009
Kieran McEvoy
Beyond legalism: towards a thicker understanding of transitional justice
(2007) Journal of Law and Society 34(4): 411–440
2008
Donald McGillivray & Jane Holder
Locality, environment and law: the case of town and village greens
(2007) International Journal of Law in Context 3(1): 1–17
2007
Daniel Fitzpatrick
Evolution and chaos in property rights systems: the Third World tragedy of contested access
(2006) Yale Law Journal 115(5): 996–1048
