| Year | (U)/(G) | Winner | Paper Title | Nominated by: |
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2008
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U |
Patricia Bass Macalester College |
Regulating the ‘Social Mix:’ How and Why Do France and the U.S. Desegregate Housing | Eric Larson, Sociology |
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G
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Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Berkeley |
Myth‑making and the Collision of Rights in Sudan | Lauren Edelman, Jurisprudence and Social Policy | |
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2007
|
U |
Rebecca Sheff Macalester College |
Strategic Choices in Diverse Contexts: The Maasai Indigenous Rights Movement | Eric Larson, Sociology |
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G
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Philip Goodman, University of California, Irvine |
It's Just Black, White or Hispanic": An Ethno- graphic Examination of Racializing Moves in California's Segregated Prison Reception Centers | Valerie Jenness, Criminology, Law and Society | |
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2006
|
U |
Ian Richardson University of California, Berkeley |
From Institutional Change to Customer Service: The Development of the Practical Meaning of Title VI | Charles McClain, Jurisprudence and Social Policy |
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G
G |
Ariel Meyerstein, |
Scott Leon Washington |
Between Law and Culture: Rwanda's Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality The Killing Fields Revisited: Lynching and Anti- Miscegenation Legislation in the Jim Crow South, 1882-1930 |
Jonathan Simon, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Kim Lane Scheppele, Law and Public Affairs |
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2005
|
U |
Rachel Lynn
Ballard McCracken, Amherst College |
Inside Out and Upside Down in Indian Country: Law's Colonization of the Native Nations |
Austin Sarat, Law, Justice and Social Thought |
| G |
Daniel LaChance, University of Minnesota |
Last Words, Last Meals, and Last Stands: The Illusion of Agency in the Modern Execution Process | Joachim J. Savelsberg, American Studies | |
| 2004 | U | John Graham Kimble, Princeton University | Insuring Inequality: The Role of the Federal Housing Administration in the Urban Ghettoization of African-Americans | Hendrik Hartog, History |
| G | Bruce Michael Price, New York University | How Green Was My Valley? An Examination of Tournament Theory as a Governance Mechanism in Silicon Valley Law Firms | Christine Harrington, Institute for Law and Society | |
| 2003 | U | Yen P. Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara | Creating Computer Crimes Unites to Take a Byte Out of Computer Crime | Ryken Grattet, Sociology |
| G | Vanessa Barker, New York University | The Politics of Punishing: How the Routine Activities of Governance Impact Reliance on Confinement | David Garland, Law and Sociology | |
| 2002 | U | Matthew Cannon, University of Michigan | Kulturkampf and the Courts: The Relationship between Judicial Pronouncements on and Cultural Impressions of Gay Rights in America, From Bowers to Baker | Richard Lempert, Law and Sociology |
| G | Aaron Kupchik, New York University | Making Some Noise: Degradation as Tension Reduction for the Criminal Court Prosecution of Adolescents | Jo Dixon, Criminal Justice | |
| 2001 | U | Rachael Burson, Amherst College | A Tale of Voice, Justice, and Power: Reading the Representation of Legal Storytelling in "The Accused" |
Austin Sarat, Law, Justice and Social Thought |
| G | Brian Glenn, University of Connecticut | The Shifting Rhetoric of Insurance Denial | Tom Tyer, Psychology, and Keith Bybee, Government | |
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2000 |
U | Shushanie Isaacson, University of Minnesota | Diffusion of Sex Offender Registration Laws and Public Access Provisions Therein Across Fifty American States | Joachim
Savelsberg, Sociology |
| G | John Krinsky, Columbia University | Organizing Stories: Counter-hegemony, Legal Advocacy, and Anti-Workforce Activism in New York City | Francesca Polletta, Sociology | |
| 1999 | U | Emily Samantha Glasgow, Amherst College | Taking Children Seriously: Reconceiving Childhood, Imagining Rights, and Respecting the Voice of Youth | Austin
Sarat, Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought |
| G | Michele Landis, Northwestern University | Fate, Responsibility, and "Natural" Disaster Relief: Narrating the American Welfare State | Arthur Stinchcomb, Sociology | |
| 1998 | U | Vicki J. Running, Wellesley College | Political Rights and Goals: Ananlying the Consituttional Challenges and Policy Considerations Facing Megan’s Law, the Community Notification Provision Regarding Released Sex Offenders | Thomas F. Burke, Philosophy |
| G | (co-winner) Liliana Suarez-Navaz, Stanford University | The
Symbolic and Political Manufacturing of the Legitimation of Legality
|
Jane Collier, Anthropology | |
| G | (co-winner)
Laura Beth Nielsen, University of California, Berkeley |
Paying Workers or Paying Lawyers: Employee Termination Practices in the United States and Canada | Robert
Kagan, Law and Society |
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| 1997 | U | Clifford J. Rosky, Amherst College | A View to a Kill: Democracy, Television, and Capital Punishment | Austin
Sarat, Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought |
| G | David
T. Johnson, University of California, Berkeley |
The Organization of Prosecution and the Possibility of Order | Malcolm
Feeley, Jurisprudence & Social Policy |
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| 1996 | U | Alexa Klimas, Princeton University | Why Did We Believe the Children?: A Closer Look at Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Day Care Centers in the 1980's | Hendrik Hartog, History |
| G | Susan
S. Gooding, University of Chicago |
Race, Place and Names: Layered Identities in United States v. Oregon, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Plaintiff-Intervenor | Elizabeth Mertz, Anthropology & Law | |
| 1995 | U | Clare Melissa Gilbert, Vassar College | Pornography v. the First Amendment | Adelaide Villmoare, Political Science |
| G | Cynthia R. Poe, University of Wisconsin | Those Wondrous Structures Found: The Antiquities Act of 1906 and Federal Indian Policy | Arthur McEvoy, History | |
| 1994 | U | Elizabeth A. Myrick, Bates College | What’s Rights Got to Do With It?: Intimate Violence and the Potential of Postmodern Rights Theory | Mark
Kessler, Political Science
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| G | Paul J. Neiberg, University of California, Berkeley | Endangered Species Protection in the United States and Canada: A Comparison of Policy Styles | Robert
Kagan, Law and Society |
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| 1993 | G | Avi
Tannenbaum, University of Maryland |
Deadly Force: The Influence of a Supreme Court Decision on Police Behavior | Sally
Simpson, Criminal Justice |
| 1992 | U | Marilyn Brown, Wellesley College | The Meanings of Intoxication: Alcohol, Power and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii | Sally Merry, Anthropology |
| G | Michele
DeMary, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
The New Federalism in Massachusetts | John
Brigham & Sheldon Goldman, Political Science |
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| 1991 | U | John White, Santa Clara University | Styles of Mediation and Society: An Analysis of a ‘Hybrid’ Approach to Mediation | George Westmark, Anthropology |
| G | John Gilliom, University of Washington | Rights and Discipline: competing Modes of Social Control in the Fight over Drug Testing | Stuart Scheingold, Political Science | |
| 1990 | G | (co-winner) Rebecca Eisner & Ruth Zimmerman, University of Michigan | Individual Entitlement to the Financial Benefits of a Professional Degree | Richard Lempert, Law |
| G | (co-winner)
Tom Durkin, University of Chicago |
The Meaning of Propensity to Sue Rates | John
Padgett, Political Science |
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| 1989 | U | (co-winner) Sagariki Molly
Chaudhuri, Yale University |
The Efficacy of the Temporary Restraining Order from the Victim’s Perspective | Kathy Daly, Sociology |
| U | (co-winner)
Timothy Pohl, Amherst College |
The Right to Health Care: Moral Arguments and Legal Recognition | Austin
Sarat, Political Science |
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| G | (co-winner)
Kevin Delaney, SUNY Stony Brook |
Power, Intercorporate Networks and ‘Strategic Bankruptcy’ | Gerald Turkel, Sociology | |
| G | (co-winner)
Jennifer Jackman, Brandeis University |
The Emergence and Subversion of Comparable Worth in the 1940's: A Study of the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act | Deborah
Stone, Radcliffe College |