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The 7th Global Meeting on Law and Society took place at Iscte from the 13th - 16th of July 2022.

 

LSA Awards Ceremony

Friday, July 15th at 10:15am – 12:00pm

 

Law and Society Association Prizes

Congratulations to this year’s prize winners, and a special thanks to all of our hardworking Prize

Committees!

Ronald Pipkin Service Award

For sustained and extraordinary service to the Association.

Annie Bunting

York University

Javier A. Couso

Universidad Diego Portales/Utrecht University

Committee: LSA Executive Committee

Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize

For empirical scholarship that has contributed to the advancement of research in law and society.

Herbert M Kritzer

University of Minnesota

Elizabeth Mertz

American Bar Foundation/U. of Wisconsin

Committee: Valerie Hans (Chair), Laurie Edelman, Bryant Garth, Anna Offit, Gregory Parks, Mari Hirayama

Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award

As an outstanding mentor for graduate, professional or undergraduate students who are working on issues of law and

society.

Calvin Morrill

University of California, Berkeley / Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program

Elizabeth Mertz

American Bar Foundation/U. of Wisconsin

Committee: Michael McCann (Chair), Austin Sarat, Jamie Longazel

 

Law and Society Association International Prize

For significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the field of law and society.

Nicola Lacey

London School of Economics

Committee: Naomi Creutzfeldt (Chair), Daanika Gordon, Kyoko Ishida, Justin Richland

Herbert Jacob Book Prize

For the best book in law and society scholarship published in 2021.

Reuben Jonathan Miller

F Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Little, Brown and Company (Hatchet)

University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice/American Bar Foundation

Honorable Mention - Poulami Roychowdhury

Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India

Oxford University Press

McGill University

Honorable Mention - Spencer Headworth

Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance

University of Chicago Press

Purdue University

Honorable Mention - Swethaa S Ballakrishnen

Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility

Princeton University Press

University of California Irvine School of Law

Committee: Bernadette Atuahene (Chair), Sarah Brayne, Brandon Alston, Kathryn Harvey, Tanya Hernandez , ZoZo

Syani-Mhango

J. Willard Hurst Prize

For the best book in socio-legal history published in 2021.

Gregory Ablavsky

Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories

Oxford University Press

Stanford Law School Honorable Mention – Nada Moumtaz

God’s Property: Islam, Charity and the Modern State

University of California Press

University of Toronto

Committee: Kimberly Welch (Co-Chair), Rohit De (Co-Chair), Tera Agyepon, Lucien Ferguson, Joanna Grisinger

 

Law and Society Association Article Prize

For exceptional scholarship in socio-legal studies published as an article.

Rachel E. López, Kempis “Ghani” Songster, Terrell Carter

Redeeming Justice

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Healing Futures, Temple University's Inside/Out

Think Tank

Honorable Mention – Ya-Wen Lei

Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy

Harvard University

Committee: Esther Sullivan (Chair), Hardeep Dillon, Spencer Headworth, Riaz Tejani

John Hope Franklin Prize

For the best article on race, racism and the law, published within last two years.

Frank Edwards, Theresa Rocha Beardall

Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare

Columbia Journal of Race and Law 11(3): 533-574

Rutgers University – Newark, University of Washington

Honorable Mention – Robin Walker Sterling

Through a Glass, Darkly: Systemic Racism, Affirmative Action, and Disproportionate

Minority Contact

Michigan Law Review 120(3): 450-504

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Committee: Mario Barnes (Chair), Ben Fleury-Steiner, Brandon Davis, Laura Gomez

 

Dissertation Prize

For the dissertation that best represents outstanding work in law and society research in 2020.

Steven Schaaf

Litigating the Authoritarian State: Legal Mobilization and Judicial Politics in the Middle East

University of Mississippi

Committee: Josh Kaiser (Chair), Emily Ryo, Ayo Laniyonu

Undergraduate Student Paper Prize

For the undergraduate paper that best represents outstanding work in law and society research.

Abbey Hackleman (they/them)

Functional Confinement

Perdue University

Committee: Laura Beth Nielsen, Steven Boutcher, Eve Darian-Smith

 

Fotorgafia de Hugo Alexandre Cruz

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