| Year | Author | Title and University |
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2008 |
Manuel A. Gómez |
All in the Family: The Influence of Social Networks on Dispute Processing, Stanford University |
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2007 |
Sandra R. Levitsky | Private Dilemmas of Public Provision: The Formation of Political Demand for State Entitlements to Long-Term Care, University of Wisconsin |
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2006 |
Naomi Murakawa | Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State, Yale University |
|
2005 |
Margot Canaday | The Straight State: Sexuality and American Citizenship, 1900 1969, University of Minnesota |
|
2004 |
Rita L. Goluboff | The Work of Civil Rights in the 1940s: The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African American Agricultural Labor, Princeton University |
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2003 |
Katharina Heyer (co-winner)
Barbara Oomen (co-winner) |
Rights on the Road: Disability Politics in Japan and Germany,
University of Hawaii Chiefs! Law, Power and Culture in Contemporary South Africa, University of Leiden |
|
2002 |
Catherine Ruth Albiston |
The Institutional Context of Civil Rights: Mobilizing the Family and Medical Leave Act in the Courts and in the Workplace, University of California, Berkeley |
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2001 |
Sara Manaugh | Without Reason: Drug War Politics in the United States, University of California, Berkeley |
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2000 |
Laura Beth Nielson | License to Harass: Offensive Speech, Legal Consciousness, and Hierarchies of Race, Gender, and Class, University of California, Berkeley |
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1999 |
Beth Kiyoko Jamieson | Toward a Feminist Theory of Liberty, Rutgers University |