Jane Burbank Global Legal History Article Prize

Criteria

Best article in global legal history published in the previous year.

Amount

$250

Deadline

June 1, 2025

The Jane Burbank Article Prize in global legal history will be awarded annually to the best article in regional, global, imperial, comparative, or transnational legal history published in the previous calendar year. Submissions may address any topic or period, and may focus on case studies in which the analysis relates to broader processes or comparisons. Articles on methodological or theoretical contributions are also welcome.

Annual nominations or self-nominations for the Burbank Prize are due June 1. Applicants should send an electronic copy of the nominated work to burbankprize@aslh.net.

Committee Members

  • Will Smiley (chair)
    University of New Hampshire

  • Nandini Chatterjee
    University of Exeter

  • Victor Uribe
    Florida International University

  • Fei-Hsien Wang
    Indiana University

  • Will Hanley
    Florida State University

Past Recipients

2024

Sarah Balakrishnan

“Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–1957” Comparative Studies in Society and History 65:2 (2023): 296-320

2024

Honorable Mention: Max Mishler

“‘Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct’ Enslaved People’s Legal Politics and Abolition in the British Empire” American Historical Review, 128:2 (2023): 648–684.

2023

Will Smiley

“Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions” Law and History Review 40:2 (2022): 229-259

2023

Honorable Mention: Juandrea Bates

“Unaccompanied Minors and Fraudulent Fathers: Civil Law in the Unmaking of Immigrant Family in Buenos Aires, 1869– 1920 Hispanic American Historical Review 102:1 (2022): 95-126

2023

Honorable Mention: Alexandre Pelegrino

"From Slaves to Índios: Empire, Slavery, and Race (Maranhão, Brazil, c.1740–90)" Law and History Review 40:4 (2022): 789-815

2022

Nathaniel Millett

“Law, Lineage, Gender and the Lives of Enslaved Indigenous People on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean” William & Mary Quarterly 78:4 (October) 2021, pp.687-720

2021

Kalyani Ramnath

“Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Decolonization, and International Law in Post-World War II South Asia” Law and History Review, 38, no. 1 (February 2020), 1-24.

2020

Bianca Premo and Yanna Yannakakis

“A Court of Sticks and Branches: Indian Jurisdiction in Colonial Mexico and Beyond,” American Historical Review 124, no. 1 (2019).

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