Stanford Law School Legal History Paper Prize
The Stanford Center for Law and History invites paper submissions from SLS students (including all JD and Advanced Degree students) for the SLS Legal History Paper Prize. Submissions are welcome on any topic in legal history. The prize committee will consider only work completed during the 2023-2024 academic year. Please include a brief abstract at the beginning of your paper. Please do not include any information in the paper that will identify you. Prize winners from 22-23 are ineligible for an award in 23-24, but prize winners from earlier years and “honorable mentions” from all years, including 22-23, are eligible for a prize.
The prize committee will select one SLS student as the winner of the Legal History Paper Prize who will receive a $1000 cash award.
The application is now closed.
Have Questions?
Please direct any questions you may have to committee chair, Amalia Kessler: akessler@law.stanford.edu.
Past and Present Winners
Winner, 2023-2024
A Council of Grand Strategists: The Original Hope, Fear, and Intent of the U.S. Senate in Foreign Affairs
Winner, 2022-2023
Guess Who's Coming to Stanford: The Battle for the Desegregation of an Elite Law School
Winner, 2021-2022
The Origins of Indigenous Constitutionalism: Choctaw Law and Governance, 1826-1830
Honorable Mention, 2021-2022
Who Was Your Grandfather on Your Mother's Side: Seduction, Race, and Gender in 1932 Virginia
Honorable Mention, 2021-2022
The Specter of Class in Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Doctrine: Housing Claims and the Burger Court Era
Winner, 2020-2021
Debunking The Non-Delegation Doctrine For State Regulation Of Federal Elections
Honorable Mention, 2020-2021
“Law by Moses” Hebraic Republicanism in the Constitutional Convention and the Debates over Ratification, 1787-1788
Winner, 2019-2020
Crimes of Omission: State Action Doctrine and Anti-Lynching Legislation in the Jim Crow Era
Honorable Mention, 2019-2020
Collisions of Sovereignty: Southern State Law Extension Acts in the Removal Era
