Awards

2018 Best Book Award

Winner:

Kwai Hang Ng and Xin HeEmbedded 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 CourtAsian Journal of Law and Society, 5 (2018), pp. 111–133

 


 

2017 Best Book Awards

Distinguished Book Award: 

Winner: 

Nick CheesmanOpposing 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.