About the award

The Alistair MacQueen Memorial Grant is an annual award of £1,000, providing financial support to a charitable initiative launched or developed by a UK law school.

The nominations we receive highlight the invaluable pro bono projects and outreach work being undertaken for the benefits of a huge range of people and communities. Previous recipients of the grant include the University of Kent Law Clinic, whose ongoing partnership with the Canterbury Housing Advice Centre was facilitated by the 2010 Award, and Coventry University Law School, who impressed the judges with their proposed project involving the creation of public legal information films for the local elderly community.

All UK universities, higher and further education institutions are welcome to apply for the grant.

Nominations for the 2012 award are now closed. Watch this space for details of this year's winning application.

To find out about last year's winner, click here.

Alistair MacQueen

The memorial grant was set up as a tribute to the late Alistair MacQueen, who sadly passed away in 2008.

Alistair MacQueen had a long and distinguished background in legal publishing, founding Blackstone Press in 1988.

Up until his untimely death in 2008, Alistair believed that giving something back to legal education was hugely important. This is demonstrated clearly through the various goodwill initiatives he was instrumental in setting up with law schools across the UK, many of which Oxford University Press took forward when it acquired Blackstone Press in 2001.