This award is presented bi-annually to an accomplished young researcher. This award is made to foster, encourage, and support excellence in justice-related scholarship. Recipients of this award may not have held a PhD for more than 10 years.

2006: Jan-Willem van Prooijen

2008: David De Cremer

2010: Aaron Kay

2012: Tyler Okimoto

2014: David Mayer

2016: Mitch Callan

2018: Jaime Napier