SEAL Writing Prizes

Junior Faculty Writing Prize

Announcement for junior faculty writing prize:

SEAL is now accepting submissions for the 6th Junior Faculty Writing prize. Applicants, who must be untenured at the time of their submission’s publication acceptance, should submit a citation to, link to, or copy of a published or accepted article, chapter, or book not previously submitted for this Prize. Send applications by August 1, 2015, to seal@law.vanderbilt.edu.

Entries must be on a topic within the scope of the SEAL mission. Entries will be judged by a panel made up of professors drawn from the disciplines of law, biology, and psychology, who will judge them on the bases of originality, breadth and depth of research, accuracy, creativity, and clarity of thought and expression. The competition is run on a periodic basis and the judges reserve the discretion to determine no entries are appropriate for recognition.

The prize commemorates the multifaceted contributions of Margaret Gruter (1919-2003), founder of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, former member of SEAL, inspiration and friend. Winners receive a handsome engraved crystal trophy. Past winners include Michael Guttentag, Rob Kar and Julie Seaman.

2012

Michael Guttentag, Loyola Law School – Los Angeles

Michael Guttentag, Is There a Law Instinct, 87 Wash. U. L. Rev. 269 (2009). http://digitalcommons.law.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=lawreview

2009

Robin B. Kar, University of Illinois College of Law (currently)

Robin Kar, The Deep Structure of Law and Morality, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 877 (2006). http://ssrn.com/abstract=891491

2006

Julie Seaman, Emory Law School

Julie Seaman, Form and (Dys) Function in Sexual Harassment Law: Biology, Culture, and the Spandrels of Title VII, 37 Ariz. St. L. J. 321 (2005). http://ssrn.com/abstract=758509

Student Writing Prize

SEAL is now accepting submissions for the 4th Student Writing Prize. Applicants, who must be students at the time of their submission’s publication acceptance, should submit a citation to, or link to, a publication not previously submitted for this prize. Send applications by August 1, 2015, to seal@law.vanderbilt.edu. The Prize carries an honorarium of $1,000.

Entries will be judged by a panel made up of professors drawn from the disciplines of law, biology, and psychology, who will judge them on the bases of originality, breadth and depth of research, accuracy, creativity, and clarity of thought and expression. The competition is run on a periodic basis and the judges reserve the discretion to determine no entries are appropriate for recognition.