Book Award Winners

2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (2022).
2022

Mia Bay, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (2021).
2022 Susan Pearson, The Birth Certificate: An American History (2021).
2021 Ariela J. Gross & Alejandro de la Fuente, Becoming Free, Becoming Black, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (2020).
2021 Madhav Khosla, India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (2020).
2020 Sarah A. Seo, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (2019).
2020 James Lindley Wilson, Democratic Equality (2019). (Honorable Mention)
2019 Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017).
2018 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Power in the American City (2016).
2016 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (2014).
2014 Judith Resnik & Dennis E. Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (2011).
2012 Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Centry America (2009).
2010 Risa Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2007).
2008 Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: The Anglo American Revolution in Authority (2005).
2006 John H. Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (2003).
2004 Charles W. McCurdy, The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 (2001).
2004 Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, adn the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth Centry America (2000).
2002 Jerry Mashaw, Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law (1999).
1999 Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge (1994).
1996 Robert C. Ellickson, Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (1991).
1996 G. Edward Whit, Justice Oliver WEndell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self (1993).
1993 Mary Ann Glendon, The Transformation of Family Law: State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe (1993).
1990 Ronald Dworkin, Laws Empire (1986).
1987 Guido Calabresi, A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (1982).
1982 Jesse H. Choper, Judicial Review and the National Political Process: A Functional Reconsideration of the Role of the Supreme Court (1980).
1982 John Hart Ely, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (1980).
1979 James Williar Hurst, Law & Social Order in the United States (1977).
1976 Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law: The Legal System: A Social Science Perspective (1973).
1973 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971).
1970 John P. Dawson, The Oracles of Law (1968).
1970 Herbert L. Packer, The Limits of Criminal Sanction (1968).
1967 Grant Gilmore, Security Interests in Personal Property (1965).
1964 Brainerd Currie, Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws (1963).