AWARDS & COMPETITIONS

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Nominations

The recipients for the 2023 ALSA awards have been announced. 

Nominations for the 2024 ALSA awards will open in the second half of 2024.

Categories

ALSA Distinguished Book Award

ALSA awards the Distinguished Book Award to a monograph that makes excellent scholarly contributions to the field of Asian law and society. The award includes two years of free ALSA membership and U$300 cash. 

Click here for the 2023 Call for Nominations.

2023 ALSA Distinguished Book Award Committee:

George Radics (Chair), National University of Singapore

Sun Jin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Miriam Driessen, University of Oxford

ALSA Distinguished Article Award

ALSA awards the Distinguished Article Award to recognise scholarly excellence in any area of Asian law and society. The award includes two years of free ALSA membership and U$300 cash. 

Click here for the 2023 Call for Nominations.

2023 ALSA Distinguished Article Award Committee:

Caroline Compton (Chair), Western Sydney University

Ke Li, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Tu Phuong Nguyen, University of Adelaide

ALSA Graduate Student Article Award

ALSA awards the Graduate Student Article Award to a published journal-length article on Asian law and society by a graduate student. The award includes two years of free ALSA membership and U$300 cash. 

Click here for the 2023 Call for Nominations.

2023 ALSA Graduate Student Article Award Committee:

Qian Liu (Chair), University of Calgary

Deblina Dey, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University

Ha Hai Do, University of Melbourne

AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition 

Co-sponsored by the Asian Journal of Law & Society (AsianJLS), the Graduate Student Paper Competition recognises the best journal-length (but not yet published) paper in the field of law and society written by a graduate student and selects it for publication in AsianJLS. This Competition is a new category starting in 2022. In addition to publication in AsianJLS, the award includes two years of free ALSA membership, U$150 cash from ALSA and U$150 of e-books provided by Cambridge University Press and the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies (CISLS), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The authors of the winning paper and honorary mention (if any) will also be offered the opportunity to work at CISLS either as student Research Associate or as Postdoctoral Fellow. 

Click here for the 2023 Call for Submissions.

2023 AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition Committee:

Celeste Arrington (Chair), George Washington University

Achalie Kumarage, Australian National University

Xifen Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago

Matthias Vanhullebusch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Previous Recipients

2023

Distinguished Book Award 2023

Distinguished Article Award 2023

Graduate Student Article Award 2023

AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition 2023

2022

Distinguished Book Award 2022

Distinguished Article Award 2022

Graduate Student Article Award 2022

The committee reviewed the entries and exercised its right not to name a recipient this year. 

AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition 2022 

2021

The awards were suspended in 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. 

2020

Distinguished Book Award 2020

Distinguished Article Award 2020

Graduate Student Article Award 2020

2019

Distinguished Book Award 2019

Distinguished Article Award 2019

Graduate Student Article Award 2019

2018

Distinguished Book Award 2018

Graduate Student Article Award 2018

2017

Distinguished Book Award 2017

Graduate Student Article Award 2017