The Alexander Maxwell Law Scholarship Trust exists to promote legal writing and legal research by awarding a series of grants. The Trust prides itself on offering practitioners – often young practitioners – a rare forum for 'practice-focused' legal writing.

For expected timing of the selection process please see timetable.

2011 Winners

Kathryn Howarth and Stuart Alford have been awarded a Scholarship to support their work on a new publication titled Prosecution of International Crimes in England & Wales.
Both authors are barristers at 36 Bedford Row.

Lucy Reed has been awarded a further Scholarship to support her work on a new publication titled Family Courts Without a Lawyer.
This will be a non-lawyer's handbook to the Family Courts in England & Wales, primarily aimed at Litigants in Person. Lucy Reed is a barrister at St John's Chambers, Bristol.