Nominating Instructions for Association Awards
The Law and Society Association is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following scholarly prizes and service awards. For background information about the awards, please visit the Awards page.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS PASSED
Awards will be presented at the 2013 LSA Annual Meeting to be held at the Boston Sheraton, May 30, 2013 through June 2, 2013.
Harry J. Kalven Jr. Award
Nominations require a letter of support from the nominator, the candidate’s vitae, and a portion of work that represents the scholarly merits of the candidate; all supporting documents must be submitted in .DOC, .RTF, or .PDF format, and must be in English.
See background of the Kalven Award
J. Willard Hurst Book Prize
The responsibility of ensuring that a work is submitted for the most appropriate book prize rests with the nominator. As a rule of thumb, books that have a significant historical focus should be directed to the Hurst Prize, while other works of socio-legal scholarship should be directed to the Jacob Prize. A book submitted for both prizes may end up being considered for neither.
Books must be published in English, or be English translations of original works. Books submitted must have a 2012 copyright; if publication and copyright dates vary, then special consideration is possible.
Please mail a copy of the nominated book(s) to each member of the committee at their addresses below, and please include a letter of support from the nominator:
| Ariela J. Gross School of Law University of Southern California 699 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071 |
Amy Chazkel Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5209 New York, NY 10016 |
Martha Jones The University of Michigan Law School 625 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215 |
| Sanford Levinson School of Law University of Texas 727 E. Dean Keeton Street Austin, TX 78705-3224 |
Daniel Sharfstein Vanderbilt University School of Law 131 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203 |
See background of the Hurst Prize
Herbert Jacob Book Prize
The responsibility of ensuring that a work is submitted for the most appropriate LSA prize rests with the nominator. To stress the restriction stated above, books eligible for the Jacob Prize may be from any field of socio-legal scholarship except history; books with a significant historical focus should be submitted instead to the Association’s Hurst Prize. A book submitted for both prizes may end up being considered for neither. Books must be published in English, or be English translations of original works. Books submitted must have a 2012 copyright; if publication and copyright dates vary, then special consideration is possible.
Please mail a copy of the nominated book(s) to each member of the committee at their addresses below, and please include a letter of support from the nominator:
| Hiroshi Fukurai Dept. of Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 |
Lisa Hilbink Dept of Political Science, 1414 SSBldg University of Minnesota 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455-0499 |
Amalia D. Kessler Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305-8610 |
| Prof. John Hagan Northwestern University Sociology Department 1810 Chicago Avenue Evanston, IL 60208-0812 |
Steven Teles The Johns Hopkins University Department of Political Science 280 Megenthaler 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 |
See background of the Jacob Prize
John Hope Franklin Prize
Nominations require a letter of support from the nominator and the full article, including full bibliographic citation; all supporting documents must be submitted in .DOC, .RTF, or .PDF format, and must be in English.
See background of the Franklin Prize
Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award
Nominations require a letter of support, the candidate’s vita, and letters of support from former students, colleagues, collaborators, or others who have experience of the nominee’s capacity as a mentor; all supporting documents must be submitted in .DOC, .RTF, or .PDF format.
Nominees must be members of the Law and Society Community; however, nominators are not required to be members.
See background of the Wheeler Award
Ronald Pipkin Service Award
Nominations require a letter of support describing the nominee’s demonstrated, sustained and extraordinary service to the Association and, if appropriate, letters of support from former students, colleagues, collaborators, or others who have benefitted from the candidate’s service. All supporting documents must be submitted in .DOC, .RTF, or .PDF format.
Nominees must be current members of the Law and Society Association; however, nominators are not required to be members.
See background of the Pipkin Award
Law and Society Association Article Prize
Nominations require a letter of support from the nominator and the full article, including full bibliographic citation; all supporting documents must be submitted in .DOC, .RTF, or .PDF format, and must be in English.
See background of the LSA Article Prize
Law and Society Association International Prize
Nominations require a letter of support from the nominator, the candidate’s vitae, and a portion of work that represents the scholarly merits of the candidate; all supporting documents must be submitted in .DOC, .RTF, or .PDF format, and must be in English.
See background of the LSA International Award
Student Paper Prizes
Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
(1) Only regular members and graduate student members, who have received papers while working as lecturers or teaching assistants, of the Law and Society Association may nominate papers for Undergraduate Student Award.
(2) The paper must have been written for a course between September 2011 and December 2012 by a matriculated undergraduate student at any institution of higher education including two-year community colleges. Papers originally written for a class within this same time period and subsequently published are still eligible for the UG paper award nomination. In submitting the paper for award consideration, the nominator must include the date and title of the course for which the paper was written.
(3) Submissions must be in English; translations from other languages into English are welcome.
(4) The paper must be double-spaced; may not exceed 18,000 words in length, including notes and references; and must be in a minimum of 12 point font.
(5) The committee strongly encourages nominators to include a short paragraph describing the merits of the student paper they are submitting.
Graduate Student Paper Prize
(1) Only non-student members of the Law and Society Association may make nominations for the Graduate Student Award.
(2) The paper must have been written for coursework (includes dissertation) between September 2011 and December 2012 by a matriculated graduate or graduate professional student at any institution of higher education. Papers originally written for coursework within this same time period and subsequently published are still eligible for nomination. In submitting the paper for award consideration, the nominator must include the date and title of the course for which the paper was written.
(3) Submissions must be in English; translations from other languages into English are welcome.
(4) The paper must be double-spaced; may not exceed 18,000 words in length, including notes and references; and must be in a minimum of 12 point font.
(5) Each submission must contain a detailed abstract of at least 200 words.
(6) The committee strongly encourages nominators to include a short paragraph describing the merits of the student article they are submitting.
Dissertation Award
The Law and Society Association presents one award to the dissertation that best represents outstanding work in law and society research. The subject matter should be in the interdisciplinary tradition of law and society research, and should reflect the style of articles that appear in the Law & Society Review, such as work that examines law in culture and society, including interpretative, historical, social-scientific, and jurisprudential scholarship.
Submissions must include the full dissertation, an abstract, and be accompanied by a letter of nomination from a faculty member and must have been completed in the 2012 calendar year. The selection committee welcomes international submissions (in English) and nontraditional research.