SLSA Prizewinners 2025

Congratulations to this year's SLSA prizewinners – announced at the SLSA Gala Dinner in St George's Hall, Liverpool, on 16 April 2025. 

At the same event Professor Joanne Conaghan, University of Bristol received her award for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community.

Hart–SLSA Book Prize 2025

Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell, Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial (2023) Bristol University Press

Hart–SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics 2025

Francesca Meloni, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality (2023) Rutgers University Press

SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2025

Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell, Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial (2023) Bristol University Press

SLSA Article Prize 2025

Lynette J Chua, ‘"He is still your father": tetherings, welfare laws, and troubled parental maintenance litigation in Taiwan' (2024) Law and Social Inquiry 49(4): 2213–2244

SLSA Impact Prize 2025

Nicola Barker, University of Liverpool, Challenging the Revocation of Same-Sex Marriage in Bermuda

Mark Walters, University of Sussex, Establishing a New Framework of Hate Crime Legislation for Seychelles

SLSA Poster Prize 2025

Winner

Yasmin Patching, ‘Re-imagining planning regulation for mining in Wales: an environmental rule of law approach’

Highly commended

Chloe Atkins, ‘Then in walked an IDVA: domestic violence and protective orders under private law – the role of the IDVA (independent domestic violence advocate) in addressing victim navigation, experience and safety’

Banaz Kamil, ‘Interpretation in asylum hearings: bridging the borders of understanding’

Matthew McCallion, ‘Autism, criminal liability, and the neurodiversity paradigm’