This award recognizes excellence in creative innovation and technology in the legal industry for the purposes of (1) expanding our understanding of what is possible, (2) encouraging a virtuous cycle of improvement, and (3) creating a more just society. Multiple award categories including:
- Access to Justice - an organization or individual who has made a difference by helping the underserved access the legal system through the use of technology.
- Artificial Intelligence - an organization or individual who has used artificial intelligence in a novel and effective way to make a difference in people's lives.
- Courts - an individual or organization that displays outstanding use of innovation that achieves a significant benefit to the courts.
- Education - an individual or institution that displays outstanding use of innovation in legal education.
- Individual - an individual who has demonstrated success in making a positive difference in the world as it relates to legal innovation.
- Lifetime Achievement - an individual who has displayed leadership, excellence and vision over a long career in driving innovation in the law.

The Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize is a scholarly writing competition that honors an outstanding article or book on a topic exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. The winner will receive a cash stipend of $10,000.

This award recognizes outstanding brief writing in an appellate court in a case concerning education law.

This award is presented to individuals with a long history of service to ELA and with an accomplished record of contribution to the field of education law. Their work must have had an impact nationally in the field of law and education and should be recognized through other national organizations, by briefs filed in high courts, or by other noteworthy contributions in the field.

This award recognizes an outstanding article, book, book chapter, or other form of scholarly legal writing in the field of education law. It must be a work of scholarly excellence that has an impact on education law, published in the past two calendar years prior to the deadline, and written by an individual author.

The Howard B. Eisenberg Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have dedicated their careers to the development and delivery of civil legal services. This may include direct provision of legal services, development of innovative methods to deliver services, participation in legislative or litigation-based efforts to increase access to pro bono legal services, or working to raise awareness of the legal needs of underserved populations.

The purpose of the award from Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is to encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship related to gender and the law. The work should make a substantial contribution to legal literature and reflect original research and/or major developments in previously reported research. This paper competition is open to all full-time law professors with five (5) or fewer years of full-time law teaching experience.

The International Law Book Award recognizes a book that excels in originality, significance and rigor in the broadly defined field of international law. The ILAW Book Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of international law.

The Order of the Coif presents one award each year for exceptional scholarship authored collaboratively by a student and a faculty member. Award winners’ scholarship must be of the highest quality. It shall exhibit originality, in-depth thought and analysis, and professional writing. It must make a substantial contribution to legal thought. At least one student and one faculty member must be named as primary authors of the work.

NAWL gives numerous awards to law students, legal professionals and attorneys who have excelled the previous year in their field via writing, professional achievement or by advancing diversity in law and in society.

The award honors an attorney who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to public service and social justice in his/her career. Nominees should be leaders in their fields who embody the tradition of public service that we seek to develop in all our students during their time at Stanford Law School.

The American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize is a writing competition designed to promote scholarship in the areas of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence.