The
Law and Society Association has announced its annual prizes and awards, several of which will interest legal historians. The first is the Harry Kalven Award, which LSA describes as “not a book award, nor is it a career achievement award, but is given in recognition of a body of scholarly work, including some portion of work having been completed within the past few years.” The two recipients are
Christopher L. Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, and
Michael McCann, University of Washington. The James Willard Hurst Prize, awarded annually “for the best work in socio-legal history published in the previous year,” goes to
Jessica M Marglin, University of Southern California, for
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2022). Honorable mention for the Hurst Prize goes to
Robert Travers, Cornell University, for
Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-93 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). And
Charlotte Rosen, “a historian of U.S. prisons and prisoner resistance, with a focus on the politics of prison overcrowding” who received her Ph.D in History from
Northwestern University in 2023, won the Graduate Student Paper Prize.H/t: MS.
--Dan Ernst
