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.
Papers should be submitted to [email protected] no later than May 8, 2026.
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.
To see papers by previous award recipients please visit our website.

