CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIO-LEGAL COMMUNITY
This prestigious annual prize honours individuals who have made an exceptional and enduring contribution to the socio-legal community. It celebrates those whose sustained efforts have enriched the field of socio-legal studies and helped to strengthen, support and inspire our community.
NOMINATIONS
This prize is sponsored by a private benefactor. The winner of the SLSA Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community receives £500 plus lifetime membership of the SLSA.
Calls for nominations are issued each year via the SLSA ebulletin and newsletter. SLSA members are invited to submit nominations stating in 100 words why the person they are nominating would be a worthy recipient of the prize.
Nominations open in June each year and should be emailed to admin@slsa.ac.uk. Closing date: first Monday in September each year.
The winner is announced at the end of November in the autumn issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter each year.
WINNERS
2024
Joanne Conaghan
'Joanne’s distinguished academic record involves socio-legal, feminist and critical scholarship in labour law, tort, jurisprudence and criminal justice. Never afraid of controversy, she was a pioneer of feminist legal scholarship in the 1990s, playing a leading…