Choose the prize route before preparing a submission
The three prize families concern different kinds of work. Use this record to identify a relevant route and the questions still requiring the current call. It does not announce a new competition, deadline or automatic eligibility.

1. Identify the actual work: book, published journal article or graduate essay. Record title, author, language and publication status. A manuscript and a published article are not interchangeable categories.
2. Match the work to the association’s named prize family. Keep the award year separate from the work’s publication year. Do not infer a future cycle from a historical winners list.
3. Open the current specific call and check the permitted period, author status, nomination route and required files. Where the overview does not answer a question, ask the association rather than copying a previous deadline.
4. Keep a submission record with the source version, unresolved conditions and actual confirmation. An email draft is not proof of receipt, and recognition of a past work does not establish a new work’s eligibility.

Book route: W. Wesley Pue Book Prize: law-and-society book in English or French; verify the applicable publication period in the current call.
Article route: CLSA Article Prize: Canadian Journal of Law and Society. English and French cycles differ; check the relevant language and publication period.
Essay route: Roderick A. Macdonald Graduate Student Essay Prize: a graduate-student law-and-society essay; verify Canadian-university status and the specific call.
Fictional triage: An unpublished draft article does not become eligible for the journal article prize merely because its topic is law and society. Record “publication requirement unresolved”; ask before submitting.
Preparation card: Work/type __; author/status __; language __; publication date __; named prize __; current call/version __; unresolved criterion __; route/files __; receipt __.

Book route: ____________________
Article route: ____________________
Essay route: ____________________
Fictional triage: ____________________
Preparation card: ____________________
The overview establishes the prize families; only the applicable call can settle a specific submission. Keep historic documents dated and use winners lists for reading without turning them into current application rules.

ACDS/CLSA — prizes — https://www.acds-clsa.ca/prizes.html