Book and Publication Awards

BOOK AND PUBLICATION AWARDS Award Name (link) Description Eligibility Deadline Value Canadian Awards CALT Scholarly Paper Recognizes the work of Any member of CALT Mid-February Prize given at the Award new scholars by holding an Annual Conference holding an annual appointment competition for (tenured, tenure- scholarly papers that track, post-doc or make a substantial sessional contract) at contribution to legal a faculty or literature. department of law at a Canadian university is eligible to enter the competition within seven years of commencing the first such appointment. CALT Award for the Honours exceptional Any member of CALT Mid-February Prize given at the Scholarship of contributions to the is eligible to submit a Annual Conference Teaching and scholarship of teaching paper on teaching and Learning and learning learning in law. The (investigating paper does not need questions related to to be published or teaching and learning accepted for and sharing the publication for answers obtained submission. through peer review, Submissions that have publication, not yet been performance or published will also be presentation). considered for publication in the Canadian Legal Education Annual Review (CLEAR). Papers that have already been published must have been published in the last 3 years. Canadian Law & Awarded annually for Edited collections are Mid-February Winners are Society Association the best book on law technically eligible, announced at the (CLSA) – Book Prize and society published but monographs seem annual meeting in in the previous year in to be favoured early summer. English or in French. Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | 1 Canadian Law & Awarded for the best For English articles, Mid-February Winners are Society Association article published in the the award is given announced at the (CLSA) – Article Prize Canadian Journal of annually for an article annual meeting in Law & Society. published in the early summer. previous year. For French articles, the award is given biennially for articles published in the two previous years. Walter Owen Book Recognizes excellent Monograph or Edited Early March $10,000 Prize legal writing and to Collection (Foundation for Legal reward outstanding Research) new contributions to Published within the Canadian legal last two years literature that enhance the quality of legal Awarded in research in this alternating years for country. works written in English (odd- numbered years) and French (even- numbered years). The Hilary Weston The prize is awarded Finalist works will, in Mid-March Winner: $60,000; Writers’ Trust Prize for literary excellence the opinion of the Finalists: $5,000 for Nonfiction in the category of jury, demonstrate a nonfiction, which distinctive voice, as includes, among other well as a persuasive forms, personal or and compelling journalistic essays, command of tone, history, biography, narrative, style, and memoirs, commentary, technique. and criticism, both social and political. Governor General’s The Canada Council for Books must be Mid-March Winners receive a Literary Awards – the Arts is responsible submitted by an $25,000 prize, Non-fiction for administering and eligible publisher. finalists $1,000 and promoting the Since the awards publishers $3,000. Governor General’s recognize artistic and Literary Awards, which literary excellence, recognize Canada’s publishers must select best English and only works they French consider outstanding. Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | 2 Fondation du Aims to reward The competition has Early April Monograph and Barreau du Québec – authors who have four categories: (1) Treaty: $10,000 Concours juridique distinguished "Manuscript of a Legal New Author: themselves by their Article", (2) $7,000 writings. "Monograph and Manuscript of a Treaty", (3) "New Legal Article: Author" and (4) $5,000 "Directory and Directory and Handbook of Handbook of Professional Practice". Professional Practice: $10,000 The categories are presented alternately over a period of two years, with the exception of the category "Manuscript of a Legal Article", which is recurrent each year. Both English and French submissions are accepted John T. Saywell Prize Given biennially to the Awarded for Mid-May for Canadian best new book in monographs. In Constitutional Legal Canadian legal history, exceptional History broadly defined, that circumstances, the makes an important jury could also contribution to an consider a seminal understanding of the article or series of constitution and/or articles, some of the federalism. latter not written in the two-year period, to satisfy the objectives of the award. Canadian Studies This prize is awarded The collection may be Mid-July The winning Network – Best annually for an edited by one or more collection will be Edited Collection outstanding scholarly, editors, focused awarded a $250 edited collection of primarily on Canada. prize to be shared at articles on a Canadian the discretion of the subject that best editors in the case of advances our joint editorship. knowledge and understanding of Canada and Canadian Studies. Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | 3 Canadian Studies This prize is awarded The author of the Mid-July The winner will Network – Best Book annually for an book must be a receive a $250 prize. in Canadian Studies outstanding scholarly member in good If eligible, the book on a Canadian standing of the CSN. winning book will be subject and that best The book may be submitted to the advances our written by one or International Council knowledge and more authors. for Canadian Studies understanding of for consideration for Canada and Canadian the Pierre Savard Studies. Award. Canadian Studies This prize is awarded The prize is granted to August 1 The winning article Network – Best annually for an the best article in the will be awarded a Article Published in outstanding scholarly volume of the JCS $200 prize and the the Journal of article published in the completed most author or authors Canadian Studies Journal of Canadian recently prior to the will be granted a Studies. deadline date of Aug. one-year 1. The article may be membership in the written by one or CSN. more authors. University of Ottawa The Library has created Must have produced October 1 Awarded by the Open Scholarship the Open Scholarship the work under Library during Open Award Award to recognize consideration recently Access Week faculty members who (e.g. within the last are committed to year); exploring the opportunities afforded by the global shift toward an open ecosystem of scholarly research and teaching. This non-monetary award is awarded by the Library during Open Access Week every year in which appropriate candidates are nominated. Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | 4 Federation for the Awarded annually to Books that have Early October Four prizes of $2,500 Humanities and the best scholarly received funding from are awarded. Social Sciences – books in the the Awards to Canada Prizes humanities and social Scholarly Publications sciences that have Program (ASPP). received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). The winning books make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada. Legislative Assembly Recognizes works by Submissions are Early October The winning book is of Ontario – Ontario authors welcomed in either announced at an Speaker’s Book reflecting the diverse English or French. annual awards Award culture and rich history reception held at the of the province and of Authors must be Ontario Legislature, its residents. Topics Ontario residents. and is then featured include the history of at the Legislative the province and its Publishing companies Assembly Gift Shop many communities; must be based in and in the Legislative prominent figures in Ontario. Library. Ontario from various fields including, but Books must be not limited to, politics, published for the first culture, arts, education time within the and business; the last two (2) years. history and achievements of women and minorities in Ontario; and the development of Ontario’s parliamentary system. Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | 5 Pierre Savard Awards The Pierre Savard Every member Late November The Pierre Savard (International Council Awards are designed association or Awards comprise a for Canadian Studies) to recognize and associate member of document signed by promote each year the ICCS can submit the President of the outstanding scholarly each year the title of a ICCS and by the monographs on a book that has been President of the Canadian topic. The published within the Adjudication awards form part of a preceding two years; Committee. The strategy that is aimed Awards include a at promoting, The book must be a sum of money especially throughout scholarly monograph toward travel and the Canadian academic dealing mainly with a lodging expenses, in community, works that Canadian topic and order for the have been written by written either in recipients to travel members of the English or French, by to Canada to Canadian Studies one or more authors. officially receive the international network. Award at the Annual General Meeting of the ICCS; Donner Book Prize Annually rewards Only monographs or November 30 $50,000 (winner); excellence and collections of essays $7,500 (shortlisted innovation in public by a single author are titles) policy writing by eligible. Canadians. Books must be published between January 1 and December

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