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2023
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Sam Hayes
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Courtroom Cartography: How Federal Court Redistricting Has Shaped American Democracy from Baker to Rucho
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Boston College
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2022
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Nikhil Kalyanpur
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Liberalism Outsourced: Why Oligarchs and Autocrats Fight in Foreign Courts
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Georgetown University
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2021
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Anthony DeMattee
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Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs
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Indiana University
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| 2020 |
Tommaso Pavone |
The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe
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Princeton University |
| 2019 |
Yasser Kureshi |
Judging the Generals: Judicial-Military Interactions in Authoritarian and Post-Authoritarian States
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Brandeis University |
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2018
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Abigail Matthews
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Connected Courts: The Diffusion of Precedent Across State Supreme Courts
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University of Iowa
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2017
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Allison Harris
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Who's on the Bench?: Political Implications of Judicial Characteristics and Judicial Selection Methods in the U.S.
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University of Chicago
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2016
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Jud Mathews
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Constitutional Rights, Private Law, and Judicial Power
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Yale University
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2015
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Matthew Hitt
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Judgment-Rationale Inconsistency in the US Supreme Court
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Ohio State University
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2014
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Rachel Hinkle
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The Role of the United States Courts of Appeals in Legal Development
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Washington University, St. Louis
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2013
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Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos
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The Collapse of Impunity in Latin America: Legal Culture, Strategic Litigation and Judicial Behavior
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University of Notre Dame
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2012
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Lauren McCarthy
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Trafficking (In)justice: Law Enforcement’s Response to Human Trafficking in Russia
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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2011
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Emily Zackin
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Positive Constitutional Rights in the United States
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Princeton University
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2010
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Patrick Peel
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Building Judicial Capacity in the Early American State: Legal Populism, County Courts, and Credit, 1645-1860
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Johns Hopkins University
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2009
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Mark Massoud
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Who Rules the Law? How Government, Aid Agencies, and Civil Society Manipulate Law in Sudan
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University of California, Berkeley
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2008
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Diana Kapiszewsk
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Challenging Decisions: High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil
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University of California, Berkeley
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2007
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Maria Dimitrova Popova
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Judicial Independence and Political Competition: Electoral and Defamation Disputes in Russia and Ukraine
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Harvard University
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2006
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Justin J. Wert
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The Not-So-Great Writ: Habeas Corpus and American Political Development
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University of Oklahoma
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2005
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Lori A. Johnson
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Who Governs the Guardians? The Politics of Policymaking for Federal Courts
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Mercer University
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2005
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Martin J. Sweet
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Supreme Policymaking: Coping with the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Policies
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Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
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2004
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Tamir Moustafa
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Law Versus the State: The Expansion of Constitutional Power in Egypt, 1980-2001
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University of Washington
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2003
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Jeffrey Kaplan Staton
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Judicial Activism and Public Authority Compliance: The Role of Public Support in the Mexican Separation-Of-Powers System
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Washington University
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| 2002 |
Nancy Scherer |
Making a Point: The Politicization of Lower Federal Court Appointments in the Modern Political Era
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University of Chicago |
| 2001 |
Michael Ebeid |
Influencing the Supreme Court: Democratic Accountability and the Presidential Threat to Judicial Independence
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Yale University |
| 2000 |
Kenneth I. Kersch |
Frames of Progress: The Political Imagination of Rights and Liberties in the United States Supreme Court
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Cornell University |
| 1999 |
Kathleen Ann Uradnik |
Government by Consent Decree: San Francisco's Struggle for Institutional Reform
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University of California |
| 1998 |
Christopher J. Zorn |
U.S. Government Litigation Strategies in the Federal Appellate Courts
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Ohio State University |
| 1997 |
Thomas F. Burke |
Litigation and its Discontents: The Politics of Adversarial Legalism
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University of California, Berkeley |
| 1996 |
Charles R. Epp |
Constitutional Courts and the Rights Agenda in Comparative Perspective
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University of Wisconsin |
| 1995 |
Cary Coglianese |
Challenging the Rules, Litigation and Bargaining in the Administrative Process
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University of Michigan |
| 1995 |
James F. Spriggs, II |
The Impact of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Federal Administrative Agencies, 1954-1990
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Washington University |
| 1994 |
Deena Rabinowicz Dugan |
The Politics of Medical Malpractice Reform in the American States
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Johns Hopkins University |
| 1994 |
Susan Brodie Haire |
Judges' Decisions in the United States Courts of Appeals: A Reassessment of Geographical Patterns in Judicial Behavior
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University of South Carolina |
| 1993 |
Andrew Koppelman |
The Antidiscrimination Project: Foundations, Scope, Limits
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Yale University |
| 1992 |
No award given |
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| 1991 |
Terri Jennings Peretti |
The Responsible Exercise of Judicial Power: In Defense of a Political Court
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University of California, Berkeley |
| 1990 |
James W. Tubbs |
Roman Law Mind, Common Law Mind
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Johns Hopkins University |
| 1989 |
Mark Graber |
The Transformation of the Modern Constitutional Defense of Free Speech
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Yale University |
| 1988 |
Graham Walker |
The Deep Structure of Contemporary Constitutional Controversy: Morality, Skepticism and Augustine
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University of Notre Dame |
| 1987 |
H. W. Perry, Jr. |
Deciding to Decide: The Agenda-Setting Process in the United States Supreme Court
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University of Michigan |
| 1986 |
Susan E. Lawrence |
The Poor in Court: The Legal Impact of Expanded Access
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Johns Hopkins University |
| 1985 |
Kim Lane Scheppele |
Legal Secrets: Common-Law Rules and the Social Distribution of Knowledge
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University of Chicago |
| 1984 |
Donald A. Downs |
Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment: The Skokie Case and the Limits of Speech
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University of California, Berkeley |
| 1983 |
Mark Silverstein |
Liberalism, Democracy, and the Court: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, and Constitutional Decision-Making
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Cornell University |
| 1982 |
Timothy O'Neill |
The Politics of Equality: Litigational Politics and Democratic Theory
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University of California, Berkeley |
| 1981 |
Stanley Charles Brubaker |
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: An Intellectual Biography
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University of Virginia |
| 1980 |
Calvin Jillson |
Compromise and Critical Realignment in the American Constitutional Convention of 1787
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University of Maryland |
| 1979 |
Harry N. Hirsch |
The Uses of Psychology in Judicial Biography: Felix Frankfurter and the Ambiguities of Self-Image
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Princeton University |
| 1979 |
Irving Frederick Lefberg |
Analyzing Judicial Change: The Uses of 'Systematic Biography' in Anticipating the Court and Shaping Its Future Policies
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1978 |
Philip Leon Dubois |
Judicial Elections in the States: Patterns and Consequences
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University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1977 |
Milton Heumann |
Adapting to Plea Bargaining: The Experience of Prosecutors, Judges and Defense Attorneys
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Yale University |
| 1976 |
Thomas Uhlman |
Racial Justice: Black Judges and Defendants in the Metro City Criminal Court, 1968-1974
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University of North Carolina |
| 1975 |
No award given |
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| 1974 |
James E. Radcliffe |
The Case-or-Controversy Provision -- How Limited Is the Political Role of the Federal Courts?
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Pennsylvania State University |
| 1973 |
Lief Hastings Carter |
The Limits of Order: Uncertainty and Adaptation in a District Attorney's Office
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University of California |
| 1972 |
Walter G. Markham |
Offenders in the Federal Courts: A Search for the Social Correlates of Justices
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University of Pennsylvania |
| 1971 |
Douglas E. Rosenthal |
Client Participation in Professional Decision: The Lawyer-Client Relationship in Personal Injury Claims
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Yale University |
| 1970 |
No award given |
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| 1969 |
James P. Levine |
The Bookseller and the Law of Obscenity: Toward an Empirical Theory of Free Expression
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Northwestern University |
| 1968 |
No award given |
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| 1967 |
Richard Richardson |
A Study of the Judicial Process in Three U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1956-1961
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Tulane University |
| 1966 |
William K. Muir, Jr. |
Law and Attitude Change
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Yale University |
| 1965 |
John D. Sprague |
Voting Patterns on the United States Supreme Court: Cases in Federalism, 1889-1959
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Washington University |
| 1964 |
David F. Hughes |
Salmon P. Chase: Chief Justice
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Centre College of Kentucky |