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

Nominations for the award must be received in June, following the conference.

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)

  • 2019

    Elizabeth Rule

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  • 2015

    K-Sue Park

    “Foreclosure and Dispossession” 

    J.D. (Harvard)
    Ph.D., Rhetoric, UC Berkeley 

    Staff attorney & Equal Justice Works Fellow, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (El Paso, TX)

  • 2014

    KB Burnside-Oxendine 

    “Life and Death, and Normal”

    Ph.D. candidate, Literature, Duke University 

  • 2013

    Alexandra Havrylyshyn 

    “Foreclosure and Dispossession” 

    Ph.D. candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley