The Society annually awards prizes for outstanding research that helps to enrich the field of legal history though the scholarly study of the role of law across time, around the world, and with a wide variety of methods.
John Phillip Reid Book Award
The John Phillip Reid Book Award is awarded annually for the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in any of the fields defined broadly as Anglo-American legal history. The prize is named for John Phillip Reid, the prolific legal historian and founding member of the Society, and made possible by the generous contributions of his friends and colleagues. Learn MoreCriteria
Best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in Anglo-American legal history.
Amount
$2,500
Deadline
June 1, 2026
Peter Gonville Stein Book Award
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. Learn MoreCriteria
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, 2026
Cromwell Book Prize
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize is awarded annually to the best book in the field of American legal history by an early career scholar. The prize is designed to recognize and promote new work in the field by graduate students, law students, post-doctoral fellows and early career faculty. Learn MoreCriteria
Excellence in scholarship in the field of American legal history by an early career scholar.
Amount
$5,000
Deadline
June 1, 2026
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