Eligibility Criteria

– Individuals may enter the Prize if they have completed either (1) a doctoral degree; or (2) a law degree that satisfies the academic requirements for the relevant national bar, no earlier than ten years before the submission deadline (1st December 2019).

– SIEL officers are not eligible to enter.
– Co-authorship is permitted provided all authors meet the stated conditions.
– Manuscripts/theses submitted for consideration must not be under review for publication elsewhere at the time of application.

Entries must include:
– The doctoral thesis or full manuscript
– An author CV (not longer than five pages)
– Thesis examiners’ reports (if applicable)
– A completed Entry Form, in which all Prize entrants will be required to provide an abstract of up to 1,500 words, including a description of the monograph’s contribution vis-a-vis existing literature

If the manuscript is a doctoral thesis all Prize entrants will be required to provide:
– A detailed revision plan explaining how the thesis will be revised for publication as a monograph. The revision plan must address the feedback received by the thesis examiners and must illustrate in detail any other changes that the author intends to make to the structure and content of the thesis with a view to transforming it into a monograph. The revision plan must include a revised title and Table of Contents.

Please note: some universities do not permit revisions, or allow only minimal revisions, in the published thesis. Please check your institution’s policy in this regard before entering the Prize.

Selection Process

The series editors of the series Studies in International Trade and Investment Law will shortlist the best entries by the end of January 2020. Following that, the shortlisted manuscripts will undergo external peer-review.

The winner of the SIEL–Hart Prize will be selected by the Prize Committee, consisting of the Series Editors of the series Studies in International Trade and Investment Law and designated SIEL members.

The winner will be announced in May 2020 on the Hart Publishing and SIEL websites as well as on social media.