Professor Emeritus David Sugarman has received a top UK social sciences award

Professor Emeritus David Sugarman (Lancaster University Law School) joins 50 other leading UK social scientists who have been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

All have been elected on the basis of their outstanding contributions to research and to the application of social science to policy, education, society and the economy.

The Academy’s Fellowship is made up of distinguished individuals from academic, public and private sectors, across the full breadth of the social sciences.

Through leadership, applied research, policymaking and practice, they have worked to help understand and tackle some of the toughest challenges facing us in modern times.

Their work has contributed to the UK’s position as a world leader in the social sciences.

David is recognised for his pioneering role in opening-up and developing an inter-disciplinary legal history of modern England that addresses the interplay between law, politics, economics, society and culture (‘socio-legal history’).

His wider contribution to social science is evidenced in his substantial engagement with a range of governmental and non-governmental institutions, including the European Court of Justice, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the Law Society of England and Wales.

David is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, and a Senior Associate of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History.

Professor Roger Goodman, the President of the Academy of Social Sciences, said:

“We are immensely proud to welcome 51 new Fellows to the Academy who are so highly accomplished in their fields. They have been selected following a robust review by their peers and have been recognised for the excellence of their work and its applications in academia, business and the public sector.

“Over the course of their careers they have surpassed the normal requirements of their positions and many have used social sciences to deliver public benefit in the realms of social, economic and environmental policy, and in higher education, regional development, government and law. I offer our new Fellows my sincerest congratulations and look forward to collaborating with them to take forward the Academy’s ambitions.”

The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences. Its mission is to promote social science in the United Kingdom for public benefit.