SLSA–Hart Socio-Legal Prizes

One of the SLSA's stated aims is to advance the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies. To that end, the Executive Committee of the SLSA invites nominations for its three annual prizes.

We are delighted to announce this year's prizewinners David Fraser and Marie-Andrée Jacobs. Details of their publications are given below. They will receive their prizes at our annual dinner in Bristol on 31 March and take part in an author-meets-reader session at the conference. The Early Career Prize was not awarded this year.

SLSA-Hart Book Prize 2010

  • David Fraser (2008) The Fragility of Law: Constitutional patriotism and the Jews of Belgium 1940-1945, Routledge

Socio-Legal Article Prize 2010

  • Marie-Andrée Jacob, 'The shared history: unknotting fictive kinship and legal process' (2009) 43 Law and Society Review 95–126
  • the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize

a book prize, open to all, 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 Socio-Legal Article Prize

an article prize, open to all, 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 Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics

a prize for the best book, published in the 12 months up to 30 September preceding the closing date for nominations, emerging from a previously awarded PhD, MPhil, LLB or MA

For a full list of previous winners, please see our prizewinners page.

Rules and nominations

Please note that there have been some changes to the rules this year. The closing date has been brought forward to Monday 5 October 2009. There is also an additional requirement that prizewinners attend an 'author meets reader session' at the SLSA annual conference.

There is a downloadable nomination form in Word format for each prize:

Nominations for the Early Career Prize should also fill in the Book Prize form and send both forms.

Completed nomination forms, FOUR hard copies of the nominated book or article, plus a version of the book or article in electronic format should be sent by 5 October 2009 to Professor Sally Wheeler, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN.

If you have any queries about these prizes you should contact Sally Wheeler.

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