Graduate Student Paper Competition
Previous Recipients
Law & Social Inquiry (LSI) conducts an annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student.
Listed below are recent previous recipients of the LSI Graduate Student Paper Competition.
2021 Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner
“US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence”
Catherine Crooke
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2020 Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner
“Liquidity: Water and Investment in Mandate Palestine”
Cristina Violante
Law & Social Inquiry, Volume 47, Issue 2
May 2022
May 2022
2019 Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner
“Body Count Politics: Quantification, Secrecy and Capital Punishment in China”
Tobias Smith
Law & Social Inquiry, Volume 45, Issue 3
August 2020
2018 Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner
Stephen Wulff
Law & Social Inquiry, Volume 47, Issue 1
February 2022