Yorke Prize

The Yorke Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for an essay of between 30,000 and 100,000 words on a legal subject, including the history, analysis, administration and reform of law,^[1]^[2] "of exceptional quality, which makes a substantial contribution to its relevant field of legal knowledge."

The prize, awarded from the Yorke Fund, is open to any graduate of, or any person who is or has been registered as a graduate student of, the university.

Endowment

The Yorke Fund was endowed in 1873 by the will of Edmund Yorke^[3] (b. 8 February 1787, d.29 November 1871), alumnus of Rugby School, scholar and later Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and barrister of Lincoln's Inn, London.^[4]

Yorke Prize winners

Winners of the Yorke Prize include:

Courtney Stanhope Kenny, 1877, 1878, 1879
Perceval Maitland Laurence, 1878
Thomas Edward Scrutton 1882, 1884, 1885, 1886^[5]
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, 1898
Richard Turner, 1923
C. J. Hamson, 1932
J. W. Brunyate, 1929
Norman Bentwich
S. F. C. Milsom, 1948
Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 1955^[6]
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, 1957
Brian Coote^[7]
John Guy
John H. Langbein
Sir John Baker, 1975
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, 1977
Francis Gurry, 1980
Paul McHugh, 1988
Neil Jones
Mark Elliott
Ralph Wilde
Andrew Lang
Kate Purcell
Jason Varuhas
Alex Mills, 2007
Kimberly Trapp, 2008
Marko Milanovic
Sarah Nouwen
Philip Murray
Tobias Schaffner, 2015
Federica Paddeu, 2015
Brendan Plant, 2015
Naomi Hart
Fernando Lusa Bordin
Joe Sampson, 2017
Visa A.J. Kurki, 2018
Christopher Jenkins, 2018
Zoe Adams, 2019
Liron Shmilovits, 2019
Will Bateman, 2020
Raffael N. Fasel, 2020
Michael Foran 2021
Stevie Martin, 2021
Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, 2021
Alex Waghorn, 2022
Maayan Menashe, 2022
Francesca Farrington, 2023
Narine Lalafaryan, 2023

References

^ Cambridge University Faculty of Law Funding Opportunities Archived 9 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ Cambridge University Reporter 11 November 2005
^ Cambridge University Faculty of Law: A Tradition of Benefaction Archived 3 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ Alumni of the University of Cambridge^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Scrutton, Thomas Edward (SCRN876TE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ ‘The Times’ 29 April 1955, p.14.
^ Watts, Peter (July 2019). "Emeritus Professor Brian Coote CBE, FRSNZ, 1929–2019". New Zealand Law Society. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

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