2019
Elizabeth Rule
Austin Sarat Award
Annual prize awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.
Submit for this Award
The Austin Sarat Award is a prize offered to a graduate student for an outstanding paper presented at the LCH annual conference. We are looking for papers that represent excellence in interdisciplinary thought, research and writing in the field of law, culture, and the humanities. Although presentation of the paper at the annual conference is required to be eligible, the award winner will be chosen based upon finished papers submitted after the annual conference.
Nominations are due following the conference. If you are not sure that the paper was presented by a graduate student, email and we can check. Once we have received nominations, authors will be contacted for their papers. Please feel free to nominate your own paper!
Submission Instructions
If you are not sure that the paper was presented by a graduate student, email and we can check. Once we have received nominations, authors will be contacted for their papers. Please feel free to nominate your own paper!
Featured Winner(s)
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2015
K-Sue Park
“Foreclosure and Dispossession”
J.D. (Harvard)
Ph.D., Rhetoric, UC BerkeleyStaff attorney & Equal Justice Works Fellow, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (El Paso, TX)
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2014
KB Burnside-Oxendine
“Life and Death, and Normal”
Ph.D. candidate, Literature, Duke University
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2013
Alexandra Havrylyshyn
“Foreclosure and Dispossession”
Ph.D. candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley