Prizes and grants

2023 Publication Prizes

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: Isabella Alexander, Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2023) 

Award for a Published Scholarly Article or Book Chapter: Sarah Ailwood, Rachel Loney-Howes, Nan Seuffert and Cassandra Sharp, ‘Beyond Women’s Voices: Towards a Victim-Survivor-Centred Theory of Listening in Law Reform on Violence Against Women’ (2023) 31 Feminist Legal Studies 217-241 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-022-09499-1 

Award to an Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown, ‘Te Rito o Te Harakeke: Decolonising Child Protection Law in Aotearoa New Zealand’ (2023) 53(4) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 507-542 https://doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v53i4.8089 

Honourable Mention for Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Kristina Chelberg, ‘“Vulnerable Monsters”: Constructions of Dementia in the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care’ (2023) International Journal of Semiotic Law 1-24 (online) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-09979-w 

About the Publication Prizes

The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) awards three publication prizes each year. The prizes are awarded for the most outstanding contribution to the field of law and society by an Australian or New Zealand scholar or a scholar whose submitted work has a focus on these jurisdictions across three categories:

  1. For a published scholarly book/monograph

  2. For a published scholarly article or book chapter

  3. To an early career researcher (ECR) for work nominated for consideration under (1) or (2) above.

The work must be in the broad field of socio-legal scholarship. As a guide, this does not include works that are purely doctrinal. Indicative points of socio-legal scholarship are: Does the work address the intersection of law and society? Does it engage with socio-legal literature? Does it focus upon both law and society?

Please note the following:

  1. All submissions are principally assessed on the following four criteria: (1) Significance of the work to the field of law and society (this criterion covers the socio-legal nature of the work); (2) Originality within the field of law and society; (3) Rigour (research methods, analysis etc); and (4) Writing and structure of argument.

  2. The publication must be written in English and have been published in the 12 months preceding the 30 June of the prize year. Note that publications can only be submitted once. If an online publication precedes a print publication or a book is published in both hard copy and paperback over different years, it is only eligible for one round. Work that has already been published in print and is subsequently uploaded online in the relevant year is ineligible for submission.

  3. An Australian or New Zealand scholar is a scholar who is currently employed by or formally affiliated with an Australian or New Zealand university and/or the scholarly focus of their submission is Australia and/or New Zealand.

  4. An ECR is a person who is currently enrolled in a PhD or has had their PhD conferred in the five years before the submission date for the prize (30 June of the prize year). An ECR may nominate their work for the dedicated book or article prize as well as being considered for the ECR prize. In calculating the five years post-PhD, major career interruptions may be recognised on a case-by-case basis.

  5. Edited collections and reports are not eligible for a publication prize.

  6. A scholarly article means an article published in a peer-reviewed journal.

  7. A person is only able to submit one sole-authored work per award. It is, however, possible to submit more than one work where a person is a joint author (up to a total of two works – i.e. one sole-authored and one co-authored; or two co-authored works).

  8. A person may nominate themselves for an award. If a person is nominated by someone else, then it must be indicated that the author of the work has consented to that nomination.

  9. The nominee must be a member of LSAANZ at the time the nomination is made. (Membership is available here).

  10. The book prize winner is expected to participate in an ‘author meets reader’ session on the published work at the annual LSAANZ conference or online event held in November/December each year. 

  11. All prize winners are expected to be on the publication prizes subcommittee, if requested, and/or review submissions for the prizes in the year following the award.

Each award recipient will receive a certificate and amount of $AUD200. Where the publication is co-authored, LSAANZ will issue a certificate for each author, but only one monetary amount of AUD $200 to be split by the co-authors.

Bursary to Support for Postgraduate Student Attendance at LSAANZ Conference

LSAANZ is delighted to be able to offer a small number of bursaries to assist postgraduate student members of the Association to attend the LSAANZ conference. To be eligible to apply for a bursary, you must be an HDR student in Australia or New Zealand/Aotearoa, and member of LSAANZ. You must also be able to provide a short statement outlining what the bursary will be used for (e.g. travel to the conference), and s statement of support from your supervisor.

More details about the bursary—including eligibility criteria, application process, and closing date—are available here.

Past winners

2022

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: Alysia Blackham Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement (Oxford University Press 2022) and Kcasey McLoughlin Law, Women Judges and the Gender Order (Routledge 2022).

For a published scholarly article or book chapter: Anna High and Mihiata Pirini Dignity and Mana in the “Third Law” of Aotearoa New Zealand (2021) 29 NZ Universities Law Review 623.

To an early career researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Sara Dehm Legal Exclusions: Émigré Lawyers, Admissions to Legal Practice and the Cultural Transformation of the Australian Legal Profession (2021) 49(3) Federal Law Review 327.

2021

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: Heather Douglas Women, Intimate Partner Violence and the Law (2021, Oxford University Press).

Award to an Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Julia Dehm Reconsidering REDD+ Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (2021, Cambridge University Press).

Award for a Published Scholarly Article or Book Chapter: Michelle Lim Extinction: hidden in plain sight – can stories of ‘the last’ unearth environmental law’s unspeakable truth? (2021, Griffith Law Review).

2020 Winners

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: Elizabeth Macpherson (Canterbury), Indigenous Water Rights in Law & Regulations (2019, CUP)

Award to an Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Stephen Young (Otago) Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Rights: Troubling Subjects (2020, Routledge)

Award for a Published Scholarly Article or Book Chapter: Beth Goldblatt & Linda Steele (UTS) ‘Bloody Unfair: Inequality Related to Menstruation – Considering the Role of Discrimination Law‘ (2019) 41(3) Sydney Law Review 293

2019

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: Marc Trabsky, Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019)

Award for a Published Scholarly Article or Book Chapter: Cristy Clark and John Page ‘Of protest, the commons, and customary rights: an ancient tale of the lawful forest’ (2019) 42(1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 26-59

Award to an Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Liesel Spencer, ‘Place-based income management legislation: impacts on food security’ (2018) 20(1) Flinders Law Journal 1-54.

2018

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: David McCallum Criminalizing children: welfare & the state in Australia (CUP, 2017).

Award for a Published Scholarly Article or Book Chapter: Amanda Nettelbeck Creating the Aboriginal Vagrant: Protective Governance and Indigenous Mobility in Colonial Australia Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 87 No. 1, Winter 2018; (pp. 79-100).

Award to an Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Tanya Josev “Campaign against the courts” (Federation Press, 2017).

2017 (inaugural awards)

Award for Published Scholarly Book/Monograph: Carwyn Jones “New Treaty, New Tradition” (VUP, 2016).

Award for a Published Scholarly Article or Book Chapter: Robyn Holder Untangling the meanings of justice: a longitudinal mixed method study. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1–17.

Award to an Early Career Researcher for a work nominated for consideration as a book, article or chapter: Carwyn Jones “New Treaty, New Tradition” (VUP, 2016).

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