Peter Gonville Stein Book Award
Criteria
Best book in legal history (written in English) outside the field of US legal history, published during the previous calendar year.
Amount
$500
Deadline
June 1, 2024
The Peter Gonville Stein Book Award is awarded annually for the best book in non-US legal history written in English. This award is designed to recognize and encourage the further growth of fine work in legal history that focuses on all regions outside the United States, as well as global and international history. To be eligible, a book must be published during the previous calendar year. Announced at the annual meeting of the ASLH, this honor includes a citation on the contributions of the work to the broader field of legal history. A book may only be considered for the Stein Award, the Reid Award, or the Cromwell Book Prize. It may not be nominated for more than one of these three prizes.
The Stein Award is named in memory of Peter Gonville Stein, BA, LLB (Cantab); PhD (Aberdeen); QC; FBA; Honorary Fellow, ASLH, and eminent scholar of Roman law at the University of Cambridge, and made possible by a generous contribution from an anonymous donor.
For the 2023 prize, the Stein Award Committee will accept nominations from authors, presses, or anyone else, of any book (not including textbooks, critical editions, or collections of essays) that bears a copyright date of 2022 as it appears in the printed version of the book. Nominations for the Stein Award are due June 1, 2023, and are made by sending a curriculum vitae of the author and one copy of the book to each member of the committee.
Committee Members
Sueann Caulfield, Chair
University of MichiganElectronic copies to scaul@umich.edu.
Fahad Bishara
University of VirginiaPO Box 400180
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180Hard copies only.
Karl Shoemaker
University of Wisconsin123 N Blount St 506
Madison, WI 53703Both hard copies and e-copies to kbshoemaker@wisc.edu
Pär Cassel
Department of History
University of Michigan
1029 Tisch Hall
435 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-4881
University of MichiganBoth hard copies and electronic copies to cassel@umich.edu.