2025 Podgórecki Prize – Call now open

2025 RCSL Podgórecki, to be awarded to a senior socio-legal scholar for distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievements, has just been opened and will close on 31 May 2025.

The Podgórecki Prize alternates each year between awards for (1) distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievements, and (2) outstanding scholarship of a socio-legal researcher at an earlier stage of his or her career. 2025 RCSL Podgórecki Prize is to be awarded to a senior socio-legal scholar for distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievements. The prize for senior socio-legal scholars is a commemorative certificate.

Nominations, to be submitted before 31 May 2025, require the support of two or more RCSL members from different countries and institutions, and should include the candidate’s CV and a brief letter of support signed by the nominators.

Members of the 2025 Jury Committee are not allowed to sign as nominators. Previous nominees may be re-nominated in this 2025 round, with updated letters of support and CVs. The Jury Committee does not have access to previous correspondence or reviews.

Publications may be in any language. For works in languages other than those familiar to the Jury Committee, the nominations should give an indication of the value of the work and provide selected translations. To consider works in less well-known languages, the Jury Committee may co-opt and consult other RCSL members. Further information may be found in the Podgórecki Prize section of this website.

Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Jury Committee, Susana Santos, susanacsantos[at]iscte-iul.pt to be received before 31 May 2025 at midnight GMT, with copy to Stefanie Lemke, RCSL Secretary, rcsl[at]iisj.es

The prize will be awarded within the framework of the RCSL Sessions organized for the V ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025.

The 2025 Jury Committee is composed of:

-Susana Santos, Lisbon, Portugal (Chair)
-Ferdinando Spina, Lecce, Italy
-João Velloso, Ottawa, Canada.

Pierre Guibentif


(Call also published in RCSL Newsletter 2025 (1))


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