Nominations Sought for Harold Berman Law & Religion Award
Information on how to nominate an excellent paper on law and religion.
For the next month, the AALS Section on Law & Religion is accepting nominations for the Harold Berman Award. Here is the text of the announcement:
The AALS Section on Law & Religion seeks nominations for the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. This annual award recognizes a paper that "has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of law and religion," in the words of the prize rules. To be eligible, a paper must be published between July 15, 2025 and July 15, 2026. The author must be "a faculty member at an AALS Member School with no more than 10 years' experience as a faculty member." Fellows are eligible, and self-nominations are accepted, though members of the AALS Law & Religion Section Board are not eligible. Nominations should include the name of the author, the title of the paper, a statement of eligibility, and a brief rationale for choosing the paper for the award. Nominations should be sent to Rick Garnett (rgarnett@nd.edu), Chair of the Berman Prize Committee, by November 18, 2026. The winner will receive an award plaque and be recognized at the section's program at the AALS annual meeting in January 2027. Thanks to the members of the Prize Committee: Rick Garnett (Notre Dame), Nelson Tebbe (Cornell), Richard Albert (Texas), Brandon Paradise (Rutgers), Leslie Griffin (UNLV), and Anna Su (Toronto).