PLSMW Writing Prize
Harvard Law School Dean's Writing Prize of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School awards 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
2025 - Arash Abbas '26
Arash Abbas, J.D. 2026
“Resisting Repression: How the PTI Transformed Authoritarian Election Interference into Democratic Momentum.”
2024 - Lorenz Dantes ’24
Lorenz Dante, L.L.M. 2024
“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.”