CALL FOR 2008 DISSERTATION PRIZE NOMINATIONS

The Law and Society Association invites nominations for its 2008 Dissertation Award.  The annual award is presented to the author whose dissertation best represents outstanding work in law and society research. The prize consists of a certificate, and up to $500 for travel to attend the presentation of LSA prizes which will be during the 2008 Joint Meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association, to be held May 29-June 1 at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Canada.

            The Dissertation Committee members are Stefanie Lindquist, chair (Political Science, Vanderbilt University), Neil Buchanan (Law, George Washington University), Mathieu Deflem (Sociology, University of South Carolina), Robert Hayden (Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh), Sandra Levitsky (University of Michigan) and Matthew Silberman (Sociology and Anthropology, Bucknell University).

            Submissions should be of outstanding work.  Models of law and society research can be found in Law & Society Review and other leading journals of socio-legal research.  The dissertation may be based on research about law in any discipline or on interdisciplinary research.  The selection committee welcomes international submissions (in English) and nontraditional research.  Submissions must be accompanied by a letter of nomination from a faculty member and must have been completed in calendar year 2007 to be eligible for the 2008 award.

            Send an electronic file of the dissertation, including abstract, and also send a single hard copy together with a faculty member's letter of nomination to be received by December 15 2007.*  The electronic file must be in Word or PDF format, on CD or disk (zip or floppy). Send all materials by postal mail, addressed to:

Chair, LSA Dissertation Prize Committee

Law and Society Association

University of Massachusetts

40 Campus Center Way, Room 217

Amherst MA 01003-9244

Tel: 413-545-4617

* For dissertations defended in December, please notify committee chair Stefanie Lindquist by December 15 of your intention to submit.  In this case, the dissertation will be due on January 15, 2008.