Awards
2023
Currently Accepting
Award Nominations
for 2023
ComplianceNet is pleased to announce our awards designed to promote and highlight scholarly efforts in our discipline. We are seeking nominations for two awards—one for an outstanding publication by a junior (fewer than 7 years of experience) scholar(s) and one for an outstanding publication by a more senior scholar (or group of scholars). Please note that winners must attend the ComplianceNet annual meeting, where the awards will be presented. See descriptions and submission information below.
The ComplianceNet publication awards recognize outstanding scholarly work of junior faculty, graduate students, post-docs, post-tenure faculty, and/or practitioners who are conducting research in the broadly defined area of compliance research. Such scholarship can be in the form of an article, book, or book chapter. ComplianceNet takes a broad approach to compliance, seeing it as the interactions between rules and behavior. We accept papers from a diverse set of perspectives, using various methodological and theoretical approaches, and covering a wide variety of topics—from electronic monitoring of offenders, individual differences in deterrence susceptibility, corporate compliance, procedural justice and compliance, etc.
Scholars working by themselves or as part of a team of co-authors are eligible for the competition. Paper submissions may be conceptual, theoretical and/or empirical (quantitative or qualitative) and must be a completed project—i.e., not a funding proposal or thesis proposal—directly related to compliance. Articles, books, or chapters published within three years of the award date are eligible for consideration. The committee may elect not to give this award in any given year.
We are offering awards in two different categories, described below:
1) Outstanding Junior Scholar Publication Award
The award recognizes scholarly work of junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and/or practitioners with fewer than 7 years of experience post-Ph.D., J.D., or other doctoral degree completion. Papers must be primarily the work of one or more junior scholars. Co-authored papers with post-tenure scholars will be accepted, but a junior scholar should be the primary author and submission letters should describe the relevant contributions of each co-author.
If there are quantitative and qualitative contributions of equal merit, it is possible (but unlikely) that two Outstanding Junior Scholar Publication Awards will be given out in one year.
2) Outstanding Publication Award
The award recognizes scholarly work of post-tenure faculty and/or practitioners with more than 7 years of experience post-Ph.D., J.D., or other doctoral degree completion. Scholars working by themselves or as part of a team of co-authors are eligible for the competition.
If there are quantitative and qualitative contributions of equal merit, it is possible (but unlikely) that two Outstanding Publication Awards will be given out in one year.
Deadline for receipt of materials is April 7th, 2023.
Submission Procedures
Please send a copy of the paper(s), chapter, or book to be considered (electronic versions required) to the Chair of the Awards Committee (contact information is provided below) by April 7th, 2023.
Nominations will be reviewed by the ComplianceNet Awards Committee, with award nominees being notified of our decision by May 1st, 2023. Please remember that winners must agree to attend the ComplianceNet annual meeting, where the awards will be presented.
Please forward submissions to:
Dr. Melissa Rorie
Senior Research Manager, OMNI Institute
2022
Award Winners
Li Wang received the Junor Paper Award for the paper, "The “Carrying the black pot”: Food safety and risk in China’s reactive regulatory state."
Jeremy Bearer-Friend received the Senior Paper Award for the paper, "Colorblind Tax Enforcement."
Tom Tyler received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
2021
Award Winners
Lisa Buchter received the Junor Paper Award for her paper, "Getting out of the ellipsis of diversity, When activists influence compliance to antidiscrimination law by providing prefigurative programs and implementation resources."
Brett McDonnell received the Senior Paper Award with co-authors, Hari M. Osofsky, Jacqueline Peel, Anita Foerster for the paper, "Climate Change Enters the Boardroom."
John Braithwaite received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
2022
Award Winners
Li Wang received the Junor Paper Award for the paper, "The “Carrying the black pot”: Food safety and risk in China’s reactive regulatory state."
Jeremy Bearer-Friend received the Senior Paper Award for the paper, "Colorblind Tax Enforcement."
Tom Tyler received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
2019
ComplianceNet is pleased to announce awards to promote and highlight scholarly efforts in our discipline. The following were awarded at the 2019 conference.
2019 Junior Scholar Publication Award: Doron Dorfman
The award recognizes scholarly work of junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and/or practitioners with fewer than 8 years experience post-Ph.D. completion. Papers must be primarily the work of one or more junior scholars. Co-authored papers with post-tenure scholars will be accepted, but a junior scholar should be the primary author and submission letters should describe the relevant contributions of each co-author.
The winner of the Junior Scholar Publication Award was Doron Dorfman.
Doron Dorfman is an Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law. His interdisciplinary research focuses on disability law and health law using doctrinal analysis and social science methodology. Professor Dorfman’s scholarship explores how stigma informs the legal treatment of disempowered communities through a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and observations.
2019 Outstanding Publication Award: Jodi Short
The award recognizes scholarly work of post-tenure faculty and/or practitioners with more than 8 years experience (post-Ph.D. completion). Scholars working by themselves or as part of a team of co-authors are eligible for the competition.
The winner of the Outstanding Publication Award was Jodi Short, with co-authors Yanhua Bird and Michael W. Toffel.
Jodi Short is the Honorable Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. Her research is on the regulation of business, in particular, the intersection of public and private regulatory regimes and the theory and practice of regulatory reform.