Awards
2018 Best Book Award
Winner:
Kwai Hang Ng and Xin He, Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision-Making in China, Cambridge University Press, 2017
Honorary Mention:
Mary E. Gallagher, Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers, and the State, Cambridge University Press, 2017
Patricia Sloane-White, Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2018 ALSA Graduate Student Article Award
Winner:
Vivien Chen, Law and Society in the Evolution of Malaysia’s Islamic Capital Market Regulation, Asian Journal of Law and Society, 4 (2017), pp. 133–156;
Ching-Fang Hsu, The Political Origins of Professional Identity: Lawyers, Judges and Prosecutors in Taiwan’s State Transformation
Honorary Mention:
Rahela Khorakiwala, Legal Consciousness as Viewed through the Judicial Iconography of the Madras High Court, Asian Journal of Law and Society, 5 (2018), pp. 111–133
2017 Best Book Awards
Distinguished Book Award:
Winner:
Nick Cheesman, Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Honorary Mentions:
Matthew S. Erie, China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Sida Liu and Terence C. Halliday, Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work, Cambridge University Press, 2016.