Law, Culture, and the Humanities awards annual prizes to outstanding dissertations and conference presentations, and recognizes significant scholarly achievement in the field.
The Julien Mezey Dissertation Award is an annual prize awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.
2025
Rami Koujah (co-winner)
“Rights, Responsibility, and the Legal Construction of the Human: An Intellectual History of Personhood in Islamic Law”
Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Alex Reiss-Sorokin (co-winner)
“From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980”
Ph.D, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Austin Sarat Award is a prize offered to a graduate or professional student for an outstanding paper presented at the LCH annual conference.
2024
Eva Vaillancourt
“The Birth of the British Crosswalk: Mystical Lines, Mechanical Obedience, and the Puzzle of Law-as-Infrastructure”
Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley
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.
2025
Robert W. Gordon
Professor of Law, Stanford University (Emeritus); Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, and Professor of History, Yale University (Emeritus)