Law & Courts

Law and Courts Award Winners

American Judicature Society Award
for the best paper on law and courts written by a faculty member and presented at the previous year's annual meeting of the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science Associations

2007	J. Mitchell Pickerill and Cornell W. Clayton, Washington State University	"The Supreme Court and the Political Regime: The New Right Regime and Religious Freedom".
2006	Kevin T. McGuire and Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	"Mapping the Policies of the U.S.Supreme Court: Data, Opinions, and Cosntitutional Law".
2005	Kevin T. McGuire, University of North Carolina Charles E. Smith, Jr., University of Mississippi Gregory Caldeira, Ohio State University	"A Spatial Model of Supreme Court Charles E. Smith, Jr., Voting," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2004.
2005	Honorable mention: Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jefrey A. Segal	"The Effect of War on the Supreme Court," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2004
2004	J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University Cornell Clayton, Washington State University	"The Rehnquist Court and the Political Dynamics of Federalism," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2003.
2003	Scott Comparato and Scott McClurg, Southern Illinois University	“State Supreme Court Compliance with the Supreme Court’s Search and Seizure Decisions.” Presented at the 2002 Southern Political Science Association annual meeting
2002	Timothy Johnson, University of Minnesota, James F. Spriggs, II, University of California at Davis, Paul J. Wahlbeck, George Washington University	"Passing and Sophisticated Voting on the U.S. Supreme Court"
2001	Howard Gillman, University of Southern California,	"The Political Construction of Federal Power in Late Nineteenth-Century America"
2000	Laura Langer, University of Arizona,	"Does the Chief Justice on State Courts of Last Resort Shape Judicial Review? The Case of Workers' Compensation"
1999	Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University	"Competition in Judicial Elections, 1980-1985"
1998	Gregory A. Caldeira, Ohio State University, John R. Wright, Ohio State University, and Christopher Zorn, Emory University	"Sophisticated Judicial Behavior: Agenda Setting Via the Discuss List"
1997	Gregory A. Caldeira, Ohio State University, Christopher J. W. Zorn, Emory University, and John R. Wright, George Washington University	"Strategic Voting and Gate Keeping in the Supreme Court"
1996	Jeffrey A. Segal, SUNY-Stony Brook	"Marksist (and Neo-Marksist) Models of Supreme Court Decision Making: Separation of Powers Games in the Positive Theory of Law and Courts"
1994	Christine Harrington, New York University and Daniel Ward, Rice University	"Rethinking Litigation: The Role of Courts in Producing Litigation"
1993	Mark Graber, University of Maryland	"The Non-Majoritarian Difficulty: Legislative Deference to the Judiciary"

Congressional Quarterly Press Award
for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student

2007	Shauhin Talesh, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee	"Understanding Public Confidence in American Courts"
2006	Matthew Ingram, University of New Mexico	"Judicial Efficiency in 17 Mexico States, 1993-2000"
2005	David Glick, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University	"Strategic Retreat and the 1935 Gold Clause Cases: Upholding the New Deal to Challenge the New Deal"
2004	Chad Westerland, Ph.D. Candidate, Stony Brook University	"Who Owns the Majority Opinion?: Policy Making on the U. S. Supreme Court"
2003	Paul M. Collins, Jr. and Lisa Solowiej, Binghamton University, SUNY	“Participation, Competition, and Conflict: Interest Groups in the US Supreme Court”
2002	Paul M. Collins, Jr., Binghamton University	"Organized Interests in the Supreme Court: Gauging the Effectiveness of Amicus Curiae Participation"
2001	Alec C. Ewald, University of Massachusetts, Amherst	"Getting Ready for Garza? Judge Emilio Garza, Civil Liberties, and the Politics of Judicial Selection"
2000	Michael Ebeid, Yale University	"Do Presidents Shape Supreme Court Ideology? An Analysis of Judicial Agreement Tendencies"
1999	Joshua Clinton, Stanford University	"An Independent Judiciary? Determining the Influence of Congressional and Presidential Preferences on the Supreme Court's Interpretation of Federal Statutes: 1953-1995"
1999	Gretchen Helmke, University of Chicago	"Toward a Formal Theory of an Informal Institution: Insecure Tenure and Judicial Independence in Argentina, 1976-1995"
1998	Laura Langer, Florida State University	"State Supreme Courts and Countermajoritarian Behavior"
1997	Nancy Scherer, University of Chicago	"Reexamining the Politics of Crime in the Federal Courts: Are Bill Clinton's Judicial Appointees 'New' Democrats or 'Old' Democrats?"
1996	Melissa Marschall and Andreas Broscheid, SUNY-Stony Brook	"A NeoMarksist Model of Supreme Court/Congress/President Interaction: The Civil Rights Cases, 1953-1992"
1994	Nancy Crowe, University of Chicago	"Gender and Asset Settlements in Divorce Proceedings"
1993	Julie Novkov, University of Michigan
1990	Andrew Koppelman, Yale University	"Forced Labor: A Thirteenth Amendment Defense of Abortion"

The C. Herman Pritchett Award
for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist.

2007	Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University	Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior (Princeton University Press, 2006)
2006	Peter H. Russell, University of Toronto	Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonies (University of Toronto Press)
2005	William Haltom, University of Puget Sound Michael McCann, University of Washington	Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2004)
2004	Thomas Ginsburg, University of Illinois College of Law	Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2003	Ira Strauber, Grinnell College	Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law And Legal Commentary As Civic Education (Duke University Press, 2002)
2002	Lynn Mather, Dartmouth College, Craig A. McEwen, Bowdoin College, and Richard J. Maiman, University of Southern Maine	Divorce Lawyers At Work: Varieties Of Professionalism In Practice (Oxford University Press, 2001)
2001	Forrest Maltzman, George Washington University, James F. Spriggs II, University of California at Davis and Paul J. Wahlbeck, The George Washington University	Crafting Law on the Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
2000	Harold J. Spaeth, Michigan State University and Jeffery A. Segal, SUNY-Stony Brook	Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
1998	Charles Epp, University of Kansas	The Rights Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
1998	Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, Washington University, St. Louis	The Choices Justices Make (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998)
1998	Honorable Mention Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts	Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection From Roosevelt Through Reagan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)
1997	Wayne D. Moore, Virginia Tech	Constitutional Rights and the Powers of the People
1996	John Anthony Maltese, University of Georgia	The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees
1994	Howard Gillman, University of Southern California	The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993)
	Kevin T. McGuire (honorable mention), University of Minnesota	The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993)
1993	H. W. Perry, Harvard University	Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991)
	Herbert Kritzer, University of Wisconsin	Let's Make a Deal: Understanding the Negotiation Process in Ordinary Litigation (Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1991)
1991	Susan E. Lawrence, Rutgers University	The Poor in Court: The Legal Services Program and Supreme Court Decision Making (Princeton University Press)

The Lifetime Achievement Award
honoring a distinguished career of achievement and service in the field of law and courts.

2007	Saul Brenner, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
2006	Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2005	Joel B. Grossman, Johns Hopkins University
2004	Stuart A. Scheingold, University of Washington
2003	S. Sidney Ulmer, University of Kentucky
2002	Walter Berns, American Enterprise Institute
2001	Martin Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
2000	Beverly Blair Cook, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1999	Glendon Schubert, University of Hawaii, Manoa
1998	Samuel Krislov, University of Minnesota
1997	Harold J. Spaeth, Michigan State University
1995	Walter Murphy, Princeton University
1993	Henry J. Abraham, University of Virginia

Wadsworth Publishing Award
honoring a book or journal article, 10 years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts.

2007	H.W. Perry, University of Texas, Austin	Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. (Harvard University Press, 2005)
2006	Michael McCann, University of Washington	Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization. (Universiy of Chicago Press, 1994 )
2005	Jeffrey A. Segal, Stony Brook University Harold Spaeth, Michigan State University	The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
2004	Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania	"Political Jurisprudence, the `New Institutionalism,' and the Future of Public Law," 82 American Political Science Review 89 (1988).
2003	Gerald Rosenberg, University of Chicago	The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (University of Chicago Press, 1991)
2002	Jeffrey A. Segal, SUNY-Stony Brook	"Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981." American Political Science Review (1983)
2001	J. Woodford Howard, Jr., Johns Hopkins University	"On the Fluidity of Judicial Choice." American Political Science Review (1968)
2000	Robert A. Dahl, Yale University	"Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy Maker." Journal of Public Law (1958)

Houghton Mifflin Award
for the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published in the last year.

2007	Sarah Benesh, University of Wisconson, Milwaukee	"Understanding Public Confidence in American Courts," Journal of Politics.
2006	Lee Epstein, Northwestern School of Law Daniel Ho, Harvard University Gary King,, Harvard University Jeffrey Segal State University of New York at Stony Brook	"The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects Only Nonwar Cases"
2005	Kevin T. McGuire, University of North Carolina James A. Stimson, University of North Carolina	"The Least Dangerous Branch Revisited: New Evidence on Supreme Court Responsiveness to Public Preferences," 66 Journal of Politics 1018 (2004).
2004	Paul Frymer, University of California, San Diego	"Acting When Elected Officials Won't: Federal Courts and Civil Rights Enforcement in U.S. Labor Unions, 1935-85," 97 American Political Science Review 1 (2003).
2004	Honorable Mention: Tamir Moustafa, University of Wisconsin, Madison	"Law Versus the State: The Judicialization of Politics in Egypt," 28 Law and Social Inquiry 883 (2003)
2003	James Gibson, Washington University	“Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa” American Journal of Political Science (2002)
2002	Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University	"State Supreme Courts in American Democracy: Probing the Myths of Judicial Reform." American Political Science Review (2001)
2001	Mark Graber, University of Maryland	"The Jacksonian Origins of Chase Court Activism." Journal of Supreme Court History (2000)

Teaching and Mentoring Award
recognizing innovation in instruction in law and courts. The award is supported by a grant from the Division of Public Education of the American Bar Association.

2007	Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University
2006	Rob Kahn, Oberlin College
2005	Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University
2004	Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University; Christine B. Harrington, New York University
2003	Lee Epstein, Washington University, and Thomas Walker, Emory University
2002	Elliot Slotnick, Ohio State University