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, "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.

Yorke Prize

Endowment

The Yorke Fund was endowed in 1873 by the will of Edmund Yorke (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.

Yorke Prize

Yorke Prize winners

Winners of the Yorke Prize include:

Yorke Prize

Courtney Stanhope Kenny, 1877, 1878, 1879

Perceval Maitland Laurence, 1878

Thomas Edward Scrutton 1882, 1884, 1885, 1886

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

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, 1957

Brian Coote

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

Tobias Schaffner, 2015

Federica Paddeu, 2015

Brendan Plant, 2015

Naomi Hart

Fernando Lusa Bordin

Joe Sampson, 2017

Visa A.J. Kurki, 2018

Liron Shmilovits, 2019

Will Bateman, 2020

Raffael N. Fasel, 2020

Michael Foran 2021

Stevie Martin, 2021

Alex Waghorn, 2022

Maayan Menashe, 2022

Francesca Farrington, 2023

Narine Lalafaryan, 2023

References

Legal awards

Awards established in 1873

Awards and prizes of the University of Cambridge

Scholarships in the United Kingdom

Awards honoring alumni