Academic Awards
The FBLS, on the advice of its Academic Committee (whose decision is final), chaired by Lady Dorrian, Lord Justice Clerk, awards two academic prizes.
The UK Academic Award, for the UK
Le Prix Universitaire Robertson- Horsington, for France.
Since 2012, the aim of both these prizes has been to reward universities offering joint-degree programmes which promote Franco-British legal understanding. Such study progammes merit both recognition and support for they enable law students, academics , lawyers and judges from both sides of the Channel to work together and to understand and appreciate both the Common Law and Civil Law legal systems and the very different methods of legal reasoning on which they are based.
The UK Academic Prize
The amount of the award is usually £1500. The recipient university undertakes to set up a fund and to award two prizes of £250 or one prize of £500 each year, for three consecutive years, to students who are to be chosen for their academic excellence but also for their strong motivation to help advance Franco-British legal understanding and relations.
Le Prix Universitaire Robertson-Horsington*
The amount of this memorial prize is £1000. The recipient university undertakes to set up a fund and to award a prize of £200 each year, for five consecutive years, to students who are to be chosen for their academic excellence but also for their commitment to promoting Franco-British legal understanding and strengthening the historical ties of friendship linking the UK and France.
* History of the prize
Simon Horsington, a Board member of the Society (and one of its founding members) generously donated the funds to establish this prize in 2004. The prize was to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between France and the United Kingdom, and the 60th Anniversary of the Normandy landings and the liberation of France. It is named in memory of two members of the British Armed Forces (volunteers, 46 Commando Royal Marines, R.N.) who fought in Normandy for a Free France : H S Robertson (of Scone, Scotland, killed in France at Rots, 11 June, 1944), and F W G Horsington (of Wells, Somerset, died 1988).
Application and Procedure
Applications should consist in a written presentation of the joint-degree programme highlighting the strong points and achievements of the particular programme and showing how it enhances Franco-British legal understanding and relations. Applications must be received by the Academic Director of the FBLS by 30 September in each year.
Contact
Dr Vivienne Forrest
Academic Director
FBLS/AJFB
email : vivienneforrest@yahoo.fr
and copy to the Administrator FBLS
email : fbls@outlook.com
Publication of Award Winners
The names of award winners and institutions will be published on the website of the Society and remain there until the next awards are made. The institution will then be added to the list of past recipients.
2018 – Prix Universitaire Robertson-Horsington – Université de Strasbourg
2018 – UK Academic Prize – University of Essex
2017 – Prix Universitaire Robertson-Horsington – Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
2016 – UK Academic Prize – University of Leicester
Past Recipients of Awards
Recipients of FBLS prizes and awards include the following prestigious institutions. Some universities have received more than one award.
University of Aberdeen
University of Cambridge
University of East Anglia
Ecole des Avocats, Lyon
University of Edinburgh
University of Kent
King’s College London
Kingston University
University of Leicester
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Queen Mary, University of London
Université de Rennes 1
University of Swansea, Wales
2015 Recipients of the student winners of our academic prizes
Laura Gray, University of Aberdeen
Mathilde Montaubin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2014 Recipients of the student winners of our academic prizes
Kimberly Neale : University of Aberdeen
Alice Debarre, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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