Sciences Po Law Review Award for Outstanding Legal Article
The author of the best submission each year, exclusively open to Sciences Po students, will be honored with the Sciences Po Law Review Award for Outstanding Legal Article.
Students may write on the legal topic of their choice in either English or French.
The winning contribution will receive a prize of 200 euros. Submissions will be evaluated based on quality of writing, originality, and contribution to legal scholarship.
For details on formatting, length, submission process, and other requirements, please refer to our general blog article guidelines. Please submit your article through the Google Forms link.
Articles should be sent by May 31, 2026 at 23:59.
Co-laureate:
Csongor HETÉNYI
The Architecture of Assisted Dying: Lessons from the French Parliamentary Debates of February 2026
How emerged from the french parliament debates on assisted dying a patchwork of national compromises, rather than a unified model.
In February 2026, the French Assemblée nationale cast its sounding line to plumb the uncharted depths of its law on the end of life, testing whether assisted suicide could find a place within the French medical-legal order.
Co-laureate:
Ahn-Dao Dang
The Humanitarian Beta-Test
How the world's most vulnerable populations became the training data for the global AI industry
Registration is not a choice but a 'binary ultimatum': decline the scanner, and you cease to exist as an eligible recipient. This article exposes the legal void behind humanitarian AI and proposes a 'Digital Habeas Corpus' to close it.
