The Human Rights Section’s Best Book Award recognizes an outstanding monograph in the field of human rights published within the past two years. Nominated books will be evaluated for excellence and impact in terms of germaneness, substance, originality, and timeliness.

The Award is accompanied by a one-year paid membership of ISA and Human Rights Section dues (see below).

Details

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Recipient Criteria

Books published during the two-year period prior to the nomination deadline are eligible for nomination. (For example, if a nomination were received in June of 2022, the book must have been published between June 2020 and May 2022.)
Books must be published at the time of nomination; page-proofs of upcoming manuscripts will not be accepted.
Recipients of the award must be members of ISA and of the Human Rights Section at the time the award is presented at the ISA Annual Meeting. If the recipient is not a member of ISA and/or the Human Rights Section at the time the award is offered, the recipient may choose to apply the membership benefit of the award prior to presentation at the annual meeting. Recipients who are already members at the time the award is offered will be able to apply the Membership benefit the following year.

Prize

A one-year paid membership of ISA and Human Rights Section dues.

Selection Process

The committee will select a shortlist of titles and the committee chair will then request to have those books sent directly to the committee members. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts.

Nomination/Application Instructions

Books must be nominated by a member of the ISA Human Rights Section. Self-nominations are welcome.
All nominations should be submitted by June 30 through the nomination form, available here, https://goo.gl/forms/L4ie8wMezigoxGBw1.

Recipients

Congratulations to the 2022 recipient of the HR Best Book Award, Mark Berlin, for the book "Criminalizing Atrocity-The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes"! See the previous recipients below.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Title
2021	David Scott FitzGerald	Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
2020	Lindsey N. Kingston	Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights
2019	Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon	The Logics of Gender Justice -State Action on Women's Rights Around the World
2018	Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos	Shifting Legal Visions. Oxford University Press, 2016.
2017	Steven L.B. Jensen	The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values
2015	Scott Straus	Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa

Committee Members

Susan Harris Rimmer| Chair
April 2022 - March 2023
Griffith University
9 Calliandra Place
Mount Gravatt East
QLD 4122
Austraulia

Mark Berlin | Member
April 2022 - March 2023
Marquette University
William Wehr Physics Building, 415
1420 W. Clybourn St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233

Jutta Joachim | Member
April 2022 - March 2023
Radboud University
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Netherlands

Award Chairs, please review dates to ensure deadlines are met.

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