| Year | Author(s) | Title and Publisher |
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2008 |
(co-winner) Lisa Hilbink |
Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile, Cambridge University Press |
| (co-winner) Elizabeth Mertz |
The Language of Law School: Learning to “Think Like a Lawyer”, Oxford University Press |
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2007 |
Susan F. Hirsch |
In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice, Princeton University Press |
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2006 |
(co-winner) Jon B. Gould | Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation, University of Chicago |
| (co-winner) Craig Haney | Death by Design: Capital Punishment as a Social Psychological System, Oxford University Press | |
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2005 |
William Haltom and Michael McCann | Distorting the Law: Politics, Media and the Litigation Crisis, University of Chicago Press |
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2004 |
John R. Bowen | Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning, Cambridge University Press |
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2003 |
Keith Hawkins | Law as Last Resort: Prosecution Decision-Making in a Regulatory Agency, Oxford University Press |
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2002 |
Brian Tamanaha | A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society, Oxford University Press |
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2000 |
(co-winner) Eve Darian-Smith | Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe, University of California Press |
| (co-winner) Mariana Valverde | Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom, Cambridge University Press | |
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1998 |
Bryant Garth and Yves Dezalay | Dealing in Virtue: International commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order, University of Chicago Press |
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1996 |
(co-winner) Michael McCann | Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization, University of Chicago Press |
| (co-winners) Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson and David M. Engel | Law and Community in Three American Towns, Cornell University Press |