:: PAST PRESIDENTS & AWARD WINNERS ::

 

Law and History
Review (LHR)

President

Sutherland Prize Winner

Surrency Prize Winner

Honorary Fellows

Corresponding Fellows

Volume 1, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1983

Morris S. Arnold

       

Volume 2, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1984

Morris S. Arnold

       

Volume 3, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1985

Morris S. Arnold

       

Volume 4, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1986

Barbara Aronstein Black

       

Volume 5, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1987

Barbara Aronstein Black

       

Volume 6, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1988

Barbara Aronstein Black

Paul Brand, "The Education of Lawyers in Britain prior to 1400," Historical Review, 60 (1987)

Gregory Alexander, "The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800-1914," LHR, 5 (1987)

John T. Noonan, Jr.

 

Volume 7, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1989

Barbara Aronstein Black

Joseph Biancalana, "For Want of Justice: Legal Reforms of Henry II," Columbia Law Review, 88 (1988)

Christopher L. Tomlins, "A Mysterious Power: Industrial Accidents and the Legal Construction of Employment Relations in Massachusetts, 1800-1850," LHR, 6 (1988)

Morris S. Arnold

 

Volume 8, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1990

Lawrence M. Friedman

       

Volume 9, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1991

Lawrence M. Friedman

No prize was awarded in 1990; so two were awarded in 1991: Philip A. Hamburger, "The Development of the Nineteenth Century Censensus Theory of Contract," LHR, 7 (1989); Amy Louise Erickson, "Common Law Versus Common Practice: The Use of Marriage Settlements in Early Modern England," Economic History Review, 43 (1990)

The prize was split equally between : N.E.H. Hull, "Restatement and Reform: A New Perspective on the Origins of the American Law Institute," and Eileen Spring, "The Heiress-at-Law: English Real Property from a New Point of View," both in LHR 8 (1990)

   

Volume 10, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1992

R.H. Helmholz

J.M. Beattie, "Scales of Justice: Defense Counsel and the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," LHR, 9 (1991)

Peter Karsten, "The 'Discovery' of Law by English and American Jurists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Third Party Beneficiary Contracts as a Test Case," LHR, 9 (1991)

Leonard Levy

John Baker

Volume 11, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1993

R.H. Helmholz

       

Volume 12, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1994

Harold M. Hyman

J.L. Barton, "The Mystery of Bracton," Journal of Legal History, 14 (1993)

Philip Girard, "Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture: Beamish Murdoch and His Epitome of the Laws of Nova Scotia," LHR, 11 (1993)

A.W.B. Simpson

Peter Landau

Volume 13, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1995

Harold M. Hyman

Philip Hamburger, "Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood," Columbia Law Review ,  94 (1994)

George Behlmer, "Summary Justice and Working Class Marriage in England , 1870-1940," LHR , 12 (1994)

   

Volume 14, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1996

Paul L. Murphy

Joan R. Kent, "The Centre and the Localities: State Formation and Parish Government in England , ca. 1640-1740," Historical Journal Vol. 38, No. 2

Barbara Welke, "When All the Women Were White and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class and Race on the Road to Plessy , 1855-1914," LHR, 13 (1995)

   

Volume 15, Nos. 1-2; Spring-Fall, 1997

Laura Kalman

Albert W . Alschuler, "Rediscovering Blackstone," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 145 (1996);
Honorable Mention: Margot Finn, "Women, Consumption and Coverture in England , 1760-1860," Historical Journal 39 (1996)

Timothy S. Haskett, "The Medieval Court of Chancery," LHR, 14 (1996)

Lawrence M. Friedman

Ennio Cortese

Volume 16, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 1998

Laura Kalman

David J. Ibbetson, "Fault and Absolute Liability in Pre-Modern Contract Law," Journal of Legal History, 18 (1997);
Honorable Mention:, Henry Ansgar Kelly, "Statutes of Rape and Alleged Ravishers of Wives: A Context for the Charges Against Thomas Mallory, Knight," Viator , 28 (1997)

G. Edward White, "The American Law Institute and the Triumph of Modernist Jurisprudence," LHR, 15 (1997)

Morris Cohen, Harold M. Hyman, W. A. J. Watson

 

Volume 17, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 1999

Laura Kalman

Peter King, "The Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England , 1780-1840: Changing Patterns of Perception and Prosecution," Past and Present 160 (August 1998);
Honorable Mention, Richard J. Ross, "The memorial Culture of Early Modern English Lawyers: Memory as Keyword, Shelter, and Identity, 1560-1640," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 10 (1998)

The prize was split equally between: Christine Desan, “Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of the Empire: The Creation of Legislative Adjudication in Colonial New York,” Law and History Review 16 (Summer 1998): 257-317, and

Michael Willrich,  “The Two Percent Solution: Eugenic Jurisprudence and the Socialization of American    Law, 1900-1930,” Law and History Review 16 (Spring 1998): 63-111.

Harry N. Scheiber, Kathryn T. Preyer

 

Volume 18, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 2000

Thomas A. Green

John H. Langbein, "The Prosecutorial Origins of Defence Counsel in the Eighteenth Century: the Appearance of Solicitors," Cambridge Law Journal,  58 (1999);
Honorable Mention: Norma Landau, "Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor's Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions," LHR, 17 (1999)

Norma Landau, "Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor's Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions," LHR, 17 (1999)

 

Michael Stolleis

Volume 19, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 2001

Thomas A. Green

Robert Shoemaker, "The Decline of Public Insult in London 1660-1800," Past and Present , No. 169, 2000

James Jaffe, "Industrial Arbitration, Equity, and Authority in England , 1800-1850," LHR, 18 (2000)

 

Hector L. MacQueen, Peter G. Stein

Volume 20, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 2002

Robert W. Gordon

The prize was not awarded in 2002.

Maria Agren, "Asserting One's Rights: Swedish Property Law in the Transition from Community Law to State Law," LHR, 19 (2001)

   

Law and History
Review (LHR)

President

Sutherland Prize Winner

Surrency Prize Winner

Honorary Fellows

Corresponding Fellows

Volume 21, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 2003

Robert W. Gordon

Joseph Biancalana, "Actions of Covenant, 1200-1330," LHR, 20 (2002)

Stephen Jacobson, "Law and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Case of Catalonia in Comparative Perspective," LHR, 20 (2002);
Honorable Mention: Ronen Shamir, "The Comrades Law of Hebrew Workers in Palestine: A Study in Socialist Justice," LHR, 20 (2002)

   

The first Paul L. Murphy Award was given to was given to William Thomas.

 

Volume 22, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 2004

Harry N. Scheiber

The prize was split equally between: Eliga Gould, “Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The LegalGeography of the British Atlantic, circa 1772,” William and Mary Quarterly, 60 (2003) and Daniel Klerman, “Was the Jury Ever Self-Informing?” Southern California Law Review 77 (2003).

The prize was split equally between: Daniel J. Hulsebosch, “The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke’s British Jurisprudence” and Sarah Hanley, “’The Jurisprudence of the Arrêts’: Marital Union, Civil Society, and State Formation in France, 1550-1650,” both in LHR, 21 (2003)

 

Kjell Modéer

The first William Nelson Cromwell Prize was awarded to Michael Willrich for City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge University Press, 2003). The Paul L. Murphy Award was given to was given to Michele Landis Dauber.

 

Volume 23, Nos. 1-3; Spring-Summer-Fall, 2005

Harry N. Scheiber

Sutherland: Danya C. Wright, ‘Well-Behaved Women Don’t Make History’: Rethinking English Family Law,” Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal, 19 (2004)

Surrency: Amalia Kessler, "Enforcing Virtue: Social Norms and Self-Interest in an 18th century Merchant Court," LHR 22 (2004)

Laura Kalman

 

 

 

Cromwell: John Fabian Witt for The Accidental Republic. Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law Harvard University Press, 2004)

Cromwell Fellowships: Ajay K. Mehrotra, Bernie D. Jones, Paul L. Castro

Murphy:Jill Silos

To see the citations for the awards click here.

 

Volume 24, Nos. 1-3; Spring Summer Fall, 2006

Charles Donahue, Jr.

Sutherland: Andrea McKenzie, “ ’This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose’: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England ,” LHR 23 (2005)

Surrency: Andrea McKenzie, “ ’This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose’: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England,” LHR 23 (2005); Honorable Mention: Sally H. Clarke for “Unmanageable Risks:  MacPherson v. Buick and the Emergence of a Mass Consumer Market,” LHR 23 (2005)

Morton J. Horwitz

Anne Lefebvre-Teillard

 

 

Cromwell: Holly Brewer for By Birth or Consent: Children, Law & the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

Cromwell Fellowships: Christopher Beauchamp, Kenneth W. Mack, Kunal Parker, Nicholas Parrillo, and Daniel J. Sharfstein

 

The first Reid Prize was awarded to Daniel J. Hulsebosch for Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).  Stuart Banner was the runner-up for How the Indians Lost their Land:  Law and Power on the Frontier. The first Preyer Scholars were Sophia Z. Lee and Karen M. Tani. The Paul L. Murphy Award was not given. To see the citations for the awards click here.

 

Volume 25, Nos. 1-3; Spring Summer Fall, 2007

Charles Donahue, Jr.

Surrency: The prize was split equally between Alison Morantz, “There’s No Place Like Home: Homestead Exemption and Judicial Constructions of Family in Nineteenth-Century America,” and John Wertheimer, “Gloria’s Story: Adulterous Concubinage and the Law in Twentieth-Century Guatemala,” both in LHR, 24 (2006)

Sutherland: Sara Butler, “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England ,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Spring, 2006)

   

Reid: William Wiecek for The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953, volume 12 of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Cromwell Book: Roy Kreitner for Calculating Promises The Emergence Of Modern American Contract Doctrine (Stanford University Press, 2006)

Cromwell Fellowships: Lindsay Campbell, Christopher Schmidt, Hilary Soderland, and Joshua Stein

Preyer Scholars: Gautham Rao and Laura Weinrib

The first Cromwell Dissertation prize was awarded to Christopher Beauchamp for The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business and the Law in the United States and Britain , 1876-1900—a dissertation submitted for a Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 2006. To see the citations for the awards click here.

 

Volume 26, Nos. 1-3; Spring Summer Fall, 2008

Maeva Marcus

Surrency: Hekki Pihlajamaki, “The Painful Question:  The Fate of Judicial Torture in Early Modern Sweden,” LHR 25 (2007).

Sutherland: John Beattie, “Sir John Fielding and Public Justice: The Bow Street Magistrate’s Court, 1754-1780,” LHR 25 (2007).

Reid: Christian W. McMillen for Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory   (Yale University Press, 2007)

Cromwell Book: Christian W. McMillen for Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory (Yale University Press, 2007)

Cromwell Dissertation: Diana Williams for “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy—a dissertation submitted for a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2007

Cromwell Fellowships: Sophia Lee, Leah Weinryb Grosghal, and Laura Weinrib

Preyer Scholars: Cynthia Nicoletti and Joshua Stein

To see the citations for the awards click here.

           



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