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
Austin Sarat Award
Annual prize offered to a graduate or professional student for an outstanding paper presented at the LCH annual conference.
Submit for this Award
The Austin Sarat Award is a prize offered to a graduate or professional 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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2023
Joshua D.M. Shaw (co-winner)
“Humic Lawscapes”
Ph.D. Candidate, Law, York University
Lindsay O’Connor Stern (co-winner)
“Administering Presence”
Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, Yale University
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2019
Elizabeth Rule
“Reproducing Resistance: Gendered Violence and Indigenous Nationhood”
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2018
Tad Lemieux
“Care/Takers of the Earth: The Rhetoric of Futurity in the Baffin Bay Seismic Survey”
Ph.D. Candidate, English, Carleton University
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2017
Sara Ross
“Buen Vivir and Subaltern Cosmopolitan Legality in Urban Cultural Governance and Redevelopment Frameworks: The Equitable Right to Diverse Iterations of Culture in the City and a New Urban Legal Anthropological Approach”
Ph.D. Candidate, Law, York University
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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
