Megan M. Ruddy Award

Award Description

The Megan M. Ruddy Award is given for the best article in southern legal history published over a two-year period (awarded in even-numbered years). Submissions may address any aspect of the legal history of the South in any chronological time period and may have been published in any historical journal, edited collection, or law review. The article receiving the award will display the combination of imaginative, thorough research and clear, elegant prose that were the hallmarks of its namesake's historical and legal work. The next award will be made in Atlanta, GA for articles published in 2024 or 2025. To submit an article for consideration, please send a pdf copy to [email protected] before May 1, 2026.

2024 Award Committee

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University, Chair
Laura F. Edwards, Princeton University
Guiliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara

Past Winners

2024 - Hayley Negrin
“Cockacoeske’s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Indigenous Slavery, and Sovereignty in Early Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly 80, no. 1 (2023): 49-86.