Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a Distinguished Scholar of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has been awarded the 2009 Adam Podgórecki Prize for outstanding achievements in socio-legal research by the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Santos is a full professor at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, where he is on the faculty of the School of Economics, Department of Sociology. His professional year includes teaching and researching at the UW Law School every fall semester.

The Podgórecki Prize was established in 2004 to honor the late Adam Podgórecki, a leader in the field of socio-legal research, who was a founding member of the ISA’s Research Committee of Sociology of Law (RCSL).

Boaventura (Boa) Santos has published prolifically on issues related to law and globalization, legal pluralism, multiculturalism, and human rights, and has taught at law schools and graduate programs in Brazil, England, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Angola, Mozambique, and Spain, in addition to his current Coimbra and Madison posts.

More information on the Podgórecki Prize, a prominent honor in the international law-and-society community, is available here.
 

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