PLSMW Writing Prize
Annual Program on Law & Society in the Muslim World Writing Prize
The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School will award a prize of $1,000 annually to the Harvard Law Student writing the best paper on the topic of law and society or law and social change in a Muslim majority or minority context. Papers eligible for consideration will be ones written during the current academic year at Harvard Law School.
PLSMW Writing Prize Recipients
2024 - Lorenz Dantes ’24
“Islamic Law Principles as Basis for Migrants’ Right to Diplomatic Asylum”
2023 - Fady Khoury ’23
Fady Khoury S.J.D. 2023
“Constitutional Design in Divided Societies: Historical Formations, Power-Sharing and Courts –The Case of Lebanon”
2022 - Megha Mehta ’22
Megha Mehta, LL.M. 2022
“Reposing ‘Faith’ in Gender Equality: Mapping the Consequences of the Sabarimala case for Religious Freedom and Gender Equality in India.”
2021 - Shaiba Rather ’21
Shaiba Rather, J.D. 2021
“From Domicile to Dominion: The Settler Colonial Agenda in Kashmir”
2019 - Opeyemi Rabiat Akande ’19 & Daniel Levine-Spound ’19
Opeyemi Rabiat Akande, S.J.D. 2019
“Navigating Entanglements: Contestations over Religion-State Relations in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, c. 1890 – 1977”
Daniel Levine-Spound, J.D., 2019
“The Colonial Roots of Tunisia’s Criminalization of Homosexuality”