The APSA gives awards for the best dissertations, papers and articles, and books in the various subfields of the discipline, and for career achievement in research, teaching and service to the discipline. The awards are listed at the bottom of the page linked above by topic (such as book awards career awards, paper and article awards, and much more).

The annual Distinguished Book Award and Distinguished Article Award honor works that make a significant contribution to the sociology of law.

The European Society of International Law Collaborative Book Prize is awarded each year for an outstanding collaborative work published in the field of international law. The ESIL Collaborative Book Prize was created in 2022, as a counterpart to the ESIL Monograph Prize.

The European Society of International Law Monograph Prize is awarded each year for an outstanding sole-authored work published in the field of international law.

The Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award honors a Legal Innovation & Technology SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS, to the American Association of Law Libraries, and who is well regarded for their service to the profession.

The Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship was established in 1981 to provide young legal historians with research support and a forum to present their work. Fellows attend the Legal History Colloquium during the academic year and have the opportunity to present their own work in the colloquium.

Judge Cudahy’s distinguished contributions to the fields of regulatory and administrative law combined a keen grasp of legal doctrine, deep insight into the institutional forces that determine how doctrine is implemented, and an appreciation of the public impact of doctrinal and institutional choices, including the consequences for fundamental values such as fairness, participation, and transparency. This competition sponsored by the American Constitution Society seeks to encourage and reward these qualities in the scholarship of others.
The competition is open to all lawyers and law students. Practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, and law students all are encouraged to participate.

The Administrative Improvement Awards recognize outstanding work at UW-Madison in process redesign/development or customer service that resulted in improved efficiency, increased revenue channels, cost savings, or improved service delivery.
All current Academic Staff, University Staff, faculty, limited employees, and student employees are eligible for the award. Individuals and teams may be nominated.

This program, funded by WARF in recognition of the leadership of the late WARF Trustee President H. I. Romnes, is designed to bridge the gap between the Research Committee’s initial research support for new faculty and the Mid-Career Award for Faculty Research. This award is intended to recognize and support faculty up to SIX years past their first promotion to a tenured position.

This award is comparable in competitiveness to the Romnes Faculty Fellowships and the WARF Professorships but is intended to recognize and support mid-career faculty, seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position.

This program provides recognition for distinguished research contributions of the UW–Madison faculty. The awards are intended to honor those faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities.

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation recently established a $10,000 prize for the best legal history article of the year. The prize is intended to recognize the growing role of legal history teaching and research in law schools. Articles on legal history published in a journal of legal scholarship, including student-edited law reviews, or written by a scholar with a degree in law, are eligible for consideration. Articles published in a journal issue that first became available to subscribers or to the public in the year 2022 are eligible for the 2022 prize.

The Wisconsin Law Journal celebrates the outstanding achievements of exceptional women in the legal community from across the spectrum of the legal profession.