The LPE Student Writing Prize is a $2,000 prize awarded for the most outstanding paper on law and political economy written by an HLS student. Students who wish to submit their paper must request that the professor who advised them on the paper email an evaluation of the paper directly to Professor Yochai Benkler ([email protected]) by the general deadline for paper prize submission for that academic year.
2024 LPE Writing Prize
Prize winner:
- Aidan Calvelli, JD ’24, The Lost Left of Proportional Representation.
Honorable mention:
- Morgan Sperry, JD ’24, Divergence: The Democratic Legitimacy of State Constitution-Making.
2023 LPE Writing Prize
Prize winner:
- Dana Zuk, LLM ’23, The Political Economy of Public Debt: Economic Design, Property Rights, and Wealth Distribution in Early Israeli Statehood.
Honorable mention:
- Omer Ein Habar, LLM ’23, Path Dependence: The Legal Past, Present, and Futures of Urban Highways.
- Jason Jia-Xi Wu, JD ’23, Beyond Free Markets and Consumer Autonomy: Rethinking Consumer Financial Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
