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 Michigan

    Electronic copies to scaul@umich.edu.

  • Fahad Bishara
    University of Virginia

    PO Box 400180
    Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180

    Hard copies only.

  • Karl Shoemaker
    University of Wisconsin

    123 N Blount St 506
    Madison, WI 53703

    Both 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 Michigan

    Both hard copies and electronic copies to cassel@umich.edu.

     

Past Recipients

2023

Adriana Chira

Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

2022

John Christopoulos

Abortion in Early Modern Italy (Harvard University Press, 2021)

2022

Honorable Mention: Jocelyn Hendrickson

Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Press, 2021)

2021

Nandini Chatterjee

Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

2020

Fei-Hsien Wang

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019).

2020

Honorable mention: Elizabeth Papp Kamali

Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

2019

Khaled Fahmy

In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2018).

2019

Honorable Mention: Rohit De

A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press, 2018).

2018

Fahad Ahmad Bishara

A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

2018

Honorable Mention: Tom Lambert

Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 2017).

2017

Matthew Sommer

Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions (University of California Press, 2015).

2017

Honorable Mention: Li Chen

Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, & Transcultural Politics (Columbia University Press 2016)

2017

Honorable Mention: Jessica Marglin

Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016).