Via
H-Law, we have the following call for nominations:
Harold Berman Prize for Excellence in Law & Religion Scholarship
Starting
this year, the AALS Section on Law & Religion will award
the "Harold Berman Prize" to recognize scholarly excellence by
an untenured professor at an AALS Member School.
The Prize will
be given to the author of an article, published between July 15, 2015
and July 15, 2016, which has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of law and religion.
The
recipient must be a tenure-track faculty member at an AALS
Member School and must have served no more than 6 years as a faculty
member as of the date of the awarding of the Prize. The Prize will be
awarded at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 4-7,
2017.
Nominations should be sent by email to Professor Michael Helfand (
michael.helfand@pepperdine.edu)
and must be received by 5pm PST on August 15th, 2016. Nominations
should include the full name, title and contact information for the
nominated scholar, in addition to a PDF version of the published version
of the article to be considered for the Prize. There is a limit of
three nominations per nominator. Self-nominations are welcomed.
Questions about the Prize should be addressed to Professor Richard Albert (
richard.albert@bc.edu), Chair of the Section on Law & Religion.
Prize Committee
Zak Calo (Hamad Bin Khalifa / Valparaiso)
Rick Garnett (Notre Dame)
Michael Helfand (Pepperdine)
Lisa Roy Shaw (Mississippi)
Contact Info:
Nominations: Professor Michael Helfand, Pepperdine (michael.helfand@pepperdine.edu)
Questions about the prize: Professor Richard Albert, Boston College (richard.albert@bc.edu)
Our 2007 post on Harold Berman's passing is
here.
