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SOCIO-LEGAL THEORY
AND HISTORY PRIZE

This prize was created in 2015 with funding from a private benefactor. It is awarded each year for an outstanding contribution to socio-legal theory or to socio-legal history.

Nominations for 2025 are now closed. Nominations for 2026 will reopen next summer.

NOMINATIONS

A book prize for an outstanding contribution to socio-legal theory or to socio-legal history 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 £250. 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

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Previous Winners

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2025

Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell

Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial (2023)

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2024

Başak Ertür

Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (2022)

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2023

Sharon Thompson

Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women’s Association and Family Law

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