Book and article prizewinners

The SLSA book prize was launched in 2001 at the same time as the SLSA article prize. The prize for early career academics was added in 2004. All prizes are generously sponsored by Hart Publishing. Each year prizewinners receive their awards at the SLSA annual dinner at our annual conference. The full list of all past winners is published below.


Hart–SLSA Book Prize

2010

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

2009

Christine Bell (2008) On the Law of Peace: Peace agreements and the lex pacificatoria, Oxford University Press  

2008

Stephen Bottomley (2007) The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking corporate governance, Ashgate

2007

Awarded jointly

Nigel Fielding (2006) Courting Violence: offences against the person cases in court, Oxford University Press

Anthony Ogus (2006) Costs and Cautionary Tales: economic insights for the law, Hart Publishing

2006 

Awarded jointly:

Katjia Franko Aas (2005) Sentencing in the Age of Information: from Faust to Macintosh, Glasshouse Press

Alan Norrie (2005) Law and The Beautiful Soul, Glasshouse Press

2005

Roy Coleman (2004) Reclaiming the Streets, Willan Publishing

2004

Helen Reece (2003) Divorcing Responsibly, Hart

2001

Annette Ballinger (2000) Dead Woman Walking, Ashgate

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Hart–SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics

2010

Not awarded  

2009

Louis Mallinder (2008) Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transition: Bridging the peace and justice divide, Hart 

2008

David Keane (2007) Caste-Based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law, Ashgate   

2007

Philip Hadfield (2006) Bar Wars:contesting the night in contemporary British cities, Oxford University Press

2006 

Lee Marshal, Bootlegging: Romanticism and copyright in the music industry, Sage

2005

Christopher Waters, Counsel in the Caucasus – Professionalization and law in Georgia, Martinus Nijhoff

2004 

Bronwen Morgan (2003) Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition, Ashgate

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SLSA Article Prize

2010

Marie-Andrée Jacob, ‘The shared history: unknotting fictive kinship and legal process’ (2009) 43 Law and Society Review 95–126  

2009

Kieran McEvoy,  ‘Beyond legalism: towards a thicker understanding of transitional justice’ (2007) Journal of Law and Society 34(4):411–40  

2008

Donald McGillivray and Jane Holder, 'Locality, environment and law: the case of town and village greens' (2007) International Journal of Law in Context 3:1–17  

2007

Daniel Fitzpatrick, ‘Evolution and chaos in property rights systems: the Third World tragedy of contested access’ (2006) Yale Law Journal 115:996–1048

2006

Helen Carr, ‘Someone to watch over me: making supported housing work' (2005) Social and Legal Studies 387–408

2005

Awarded jointly to:

Kieran McEvoy and Heather Conway, ‘The dead, the law and the politics of the past' (2004) Journal of Law and Society 31(4): 539–62

Jiri Priban, ‘Reconstituting paradise lost: temporality, civility and ethnicity in post-communist constitution-making' (2004) Law and Society Review 38(3): 407–31

2004

Awarded jointly to: 

Bronwen Morgan, ‘The economization of politics: meta-regulation as a form of nonjudicial legality’ (2003) 12(4) Social and Legal Studies 489–523

Amanda Perry-Kessaris, ‘Finding and facing facts about legal systems and foreign direct investment in South Asia’ (2003) 23(4) Legal Studies 649–89

2003

Claire Valier, ‘Punishment, border crossings and the powers of horror’ (2002) Theoretical Criminology 6(3): 319–37

2002

Douglas Vick and Kevin Campbell. 'Public protests, private lawsuits, and the market: the investor response to the McLibel case' (2001) Journal of Law and Society 28: 204–41

2001

Daniel Monk, 'Theorizing education law and childhood: constructing the ideal pupil' (2000) British Journal of the Sociology of Education 21(3): 555

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