Association Awards

Julien Mezey Dissertation Award

Previous Julien Mezey Dissertation Award Winners

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for its 2013 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities. The award will be presented at the Association's 2013 annual meeting, which will be hosted by Birkbeck, University of London, March 22-23, 2013.

The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, law and visual studies, legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2013 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between September 1, 2011 and August 31, 2012.

The deadline for nominations for the 2013 award is November 1, 2012. On or before that date, each nominee must submit the following:

1) a letter by the nominee detailing the genesis, goal, and contribution of the dissertation;
2) a letter of support from a faculty member familiar with the work;
3) an abstract, outline, and selected chapter of the dissertation;
4) contact information for the nominee.

All materials should be sent to:
Cheryl Suzack, cheryl.suzack@utoronto.ca

Award finalists will be notified by December 1, 2012. Finalists must then submit an electronic version of the entire dissertation. The winner will be determined by early February and invited to the 2013 ASLCH annual meeting in London. ASLCH will pay travel and lodging costs.

Questions should be addressed to Cheryl Suzack, cheryl.suzack@utoronto.ca

The Austin Sarat Award

The Austin Sarat Award is given to a graduate student for a paper presented at the ASLCH annual conference that represents excellence in interdisciplinary thought, research and writing in the field of law, culture, and the humanities. Although presentation of the paper at the annual conference is required to be eligible, the award winner will be chosen based upon finished papers submitted after the annual conference. Further instructions regarding submissions for the Austin Sarat Award are forthcoming.

James Boyd White Award

With this award we recognize and honor the originality and excellence of individual contributions to the field, and acknowledge our indebtedness to these individuals for their commitment to the interdisciplinary study of law, culture and the humanities.

Previous James Boyd White Award Winners