The ABF William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law is a year-long visiting position. The Neukom Chair is an outstanding scholar with a distinguished record of scholarship in law and the social sciences who conducts empirical research on diversity and law, broadly conceived.

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.

This national academic event is intended to foster debate, analysis, and examination of state alcohol regulation in the 21st Century. The competition is open to all persons over the age of 18. Students, academics, practicing attorneys, policymakers, regulators, public health representatives, and any person with an interest in alcohol law and policy are encouraged to submit essays.

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 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 Hastie Fellowship Program provides aspiring scholars an outstanding opportunity to prepare for a career in law teaching. The Fellowship reflects a commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and especially encourages applications from candidates of color and other underrepresented communities in the legal academy. Fellows have two years to pursue their scholarship and the support of the law school in going on the job market.

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.