2024 Book Award Winners

Dylan C. Penningroth

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Liveright, 2023

Stephen Vladeck

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Basic Books, 2023

2024 Book Award Finalists

Asad L. Asad, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press)

Samantha Barbas, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan (University of California Press)

Eric L. Muller, Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe (University of North Carolina Press)

Robert C. Post, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930 (Cambridge University Press)

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting in Japan (Cambridge University Press)

Pierre Schlag, Twilight of the American State (University of Michigan Press)