There were many excellent applications for the Yorke Prize this year, and the Degree Committee decided to make 5 awards.
Very many congratulations to all those who won a prize, and also to all those who successfully completed their PhD (a great achievement) even if they did not win a prize. The depth and quality of the field is testimony to our vibrant PhD research culture, and the hard work and rigour of our PhD students.
The Yorke Prize is an annual award presented by the Faculty for a doctoral thesis or essay of "exceptional quality" that makes a "substantial contribution to legal knowledge". Endowed in 1873 by Edmund Yorke, the prize is open to any graduate or registered graduate student of the university and typically recognises work on the history, analysis, administration, or reform of law. The prize winners were those whose theses most fulfilled this criterion.
The prize winners were:
- Dr Jeanne-Rose Arn (King's) for 'Self-Deception and Responsibility'
- Dr Rishabh Bajoria (King's) for 'Rivers without a Territory: Indus Waters Treaty, 1960 and the Erasure of Kashmir'
- Dr Bhumika Billa (Peterhouse) for 'Information Theory of Law: Gender and Religion in the Indian Legal System'
- Dr Vandita Khanna (Sidney Sussex) for 'Racialised Poverty and Article 14 ECHR: The Role of Equality and Discrimination Law'
- Dr Holli Sargeant (Peterhouse) for 'Machine Learning in Consumer Credit: Legal, Economic, Ethical and Policy Implications'