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To support the next generation ofsocio-legal scholars studying topics related to Asia, the AsianJournal of Law and Society (AsianJLS) in 2021 launched an annualcompetition for the best paper in the field of law and society written bya graduate student and from 2022 this prize has been co-sponsored by theAsian Law & Society Association.
The author must be a studentenrolled in a postgraduate program in law, social sciences, or otherrelated disciplines when the paper was submitted. Coauthored papers withone or more faculty members are not eligible, but coauthored papers by two ormore graduate students are eligible. Papers focusing on law and society inAsia are especially encouraged, and excellent papers on other socio-legaltopics will also be considered.
Allsubmissions are evaluated by a committee consistingof AsianJLS editors and invited experts.
The author(s) willreceive USD$150 cash provided by the Asian Law & Society Associationand USD$150 e-books provided by Cambridge University Press and the ChinaInstitute for Socio-Legal Studies (CISLS), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Thewinner's paper will be published in the journal after revisions. Any Honourablemention recipient will also be invited for submission to the journal (withno guarantee of publication). The authors of the winning paper and anyHonourable mention will also be given free Asian Law & Society Associationmembership for the two calendar years of 2026 and 2027 and offeredthe opportunity to work at CISLS either as student Research Associate or asPostdoctoral Fellow for two years.
2025Winner: Amalina Yasmin Binti Mohd Sokri (Crawford Schoolof Public Policy, Australian National University) for “RethinkingJudicial Legitimacy: A Process-Based Perspective From Malaysian CorruptionTrials”.
2025Honorable Mention: Arpeeta Shams Mizan (University of Bristol Law School) for “Patriarchy and Legal Consciousness:Tracing the Muslim Male Gaze on Cis and Trans Women in Bangladesh”.
An award ceremony will be held atthe closing session of the 2025 ALSA Annual Meeting on 13December 2025 at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia.
PastWinners:
2024
The2024 winner was Xinyi Ma (Peking University Law School)for "Beyond Repeat Players: Judicial Suggestions for Tech Giants andRelational Governance in Chinese Courts".
HonourableMention was given to Sampurna Das (Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi)for “Tenure Relations in River Islands: Understanding Land Law and Conflict inNortheast India”.
2023
The2023 winner was Junshu Ye & Xinrui Li (Guanghua Law School, ZhejiangUniversity) for “Beyond Cultural Interpretivism: Analysis of the Deprivation ofLand Rights of Married Out Women in Rural China”.
HonourableMention was given to Hongquan He (School of Law, Tsinghua University) for “TheEffectiveness of Administrative Litigation Reform in China: A Case Study of580,000 Judgment Records”.
2022
The2022 winner was Achalie Kumarage (School of Regulation andGlobal Governance, Australian National University) for “Collective Voice withoutCollective Bargaining: Pandemic Induced Wage Theft Claims and Worker Responsesin Apparel Supply Chains”.
HonourableMention was given to Xiangyi Ren (Department of Sociology, University ofChicago) for “Divergent forms of knowledge production and law-making in China”.
2021
SalwaTabassum Hoque (Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University (NYU))for “Law and Digitality: Tracing Modern Epistemologies and Power”.
The2025 AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition Committee
Prof.Shitong Qiao
LawSchool of Duke University (Chair)
Prof.Shen Wei
KoGuanSchool of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof.Matthias Vanhullebusch
Facultyof Law, Hasselt University
Prof.Takeshi Akiba
School of International Liberal Studies, WasedaUniversity
Speciallyinvited reviewer: Prize Winners 2024 Xinyi Ma (Peking UniversityLaw School)