About the Institute
The Institute for Law and the Humanities was created to facilitate,
support and encourage symposia, lectures, scholarship, and faculty
discussion on the relationship between law and other humanistic
disciplines. It provides opportunities for faculty and students
to integrate humanities-based studies with the study of law and
to explore the increasingly rich and diverse scholarship in areas
such as legal philosophy, legal history, law and literature, and
law and religion.
Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities
Paper Prize
The Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities is pleased to announce its fourth annual student paper prize. An award of $500.00 will be presented to the best law and humanities paper in 2007-2008. J.D. as well as LL.M. students at Chicago-Kent are eligible for the prize. There will be an honorable mention prize of $250.00. Winning papers are put on deposit in the library, are linked to the ILH website. Students writing winning papers are given assistance in publishing their articles, including use of ExpressO. We are particularly pleased that last year’s winning paper by Frank Hill, "Restorative Justice: Sketching a New Legal Discourse” was recently accepted for publication by the International Journal of Punishment and Sentencing.
A law and humanities paper is one that examines any issue from both a legal and a humanities-based perspective, or integrates the two perspectives in an appropriate manner, including legal philosophy, legal history, gender and the law, law and literature and law and religion. The paper should be scholarly and worthy of publication.
Eligibility and Submission: The prize is limited to Chicago-Kent students enrolled in the 2007-2008 year. Submissions must have been written in association with a course or an independent research project or Law Review note in either the Fall 2007 term or the Spring 2008 term. Submissions are to be received no later than June 1, 2008.
Please direct all inquiries to Professor Sheldon Nahmod (snahmod@kentlaw.edu) or Professor Dan Hamilton dhamilton@kentlaw.edu
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The Institute for Law and Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its third annual paper prize. A first prize award and an honorable-mention prize are awarded to outstanding law and humanities papers by Chicago-Kent students. A law and humanities paper is one that examines any issue from both a legal and a humanities-based perspective, or integrates the two perspectives, and includes, for example, legal philosophy, legal history, law and literature and law and religion.
Frank Hill won first prize for his paper, "Restorative Justice: Sketching a New Legal Discourse." This exceptionally rigorous piece is an analysis of different concepts of fairness in different aspects of criminal law. It effectively brings together ideas and sources from social and legal theory, philosophy, and economics. Drawing on thinkers from Kant to Foucault, this erudite paper is wide-ranging in the important questions it considers, and is at the same time closely and powerfully reasoned.
Jonathan Lahn won an honorable mention for his paper, "The Demise of the Law-Finding Jury in America and the Birth of American Legal Science: History and Its Challenges for Contemporary Society." In skillfully combining primary sources and contemporary legal scholarship, this piece combines perceptive historical analysis with thoughtful contemporary critique. It provides an original account of the largely forgotten role of juries in colonial and early American history in making independent legal and constitutional interpretations, and draws on this history to offer insights into the potential role of the jury today in providing for a more representative and engaged democracy.
Both papers are examples of first-rate scholarly work produced by Kent students and both are publishable. We wish to thank all those who submitted papers on behalf of their students or who encouraged students to submit their own papers. The ILH is planning to make past winning papers available on our website and in the library.
Frank Hill:
Restorative Justice: Sketching a New Legal Discourse
Jonathan Lahn:
The Demise of the Law-Finding Jury in America and the Birth of American Legal Science: History and its Challenge for Contemporary Society
Pervious winner:
2004-2005 – Tonya Newman: Chicago Clubwomen and Progressive Era Politics: Gender and the Pursuit of Power
Please direct all inquiries to Professor Sheldon Nahmod (snahmod@kentlaw.edu) or Professor Dan Hamilton (dhamilton@kentlaw.edu).
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