| Year | Author(s) | Title and Publisher |
|
2009 |
James A. Brundage (co-winner) Ariela J. Gross (co-winner) |
The Medieval Origins of the Legal
Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts, University of
Chicago Press What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Harvard University Press |
|
2008 |
Risa L. Goluboff (co-winner) Mary Dewhurst Lewis (co-winner) |
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, Harvard University Press The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918 1940, Stanford University Press |
|
2007 |
Nancy McLean |
Freedom Is Not Enough, The Opening Up of the American Workplace, Harvard University Press |
|
2006 |
Holly Brewer | By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press |
|
2005 |
John Fabian Witt | The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law Harvard University Press, 2004 |
|
2004 |
Bruce H. Mann (co-winner) Daniel Lord Smail (co-winner) |
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age
of American Independence, Harvard University Press The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423, Cornell University Press |
|
2003 |
Lauren Benton | Law and Colonial Cultures, Cambridge University Press |
|
2002 |
Sally Engle Merry | Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law, Princeton University Press |
|
2000 |
Victoria Saker Woeste | The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945, University of North Carolina Press |
|
1998 |
Leslie J. Reagan | When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, University of California Press |
|
1996 |
Marianne Constable | The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and the Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge, University of Chicago Press |
|
1994 |
Christopher L. Tomlins | Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic, Cambridge University Press |
|
1992 |
Theodore L. Steinberg (co-winner) Constance B. Backhouse (co-winner) |
Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and
the Waters of New England, Cambridge University Press Petticoats and Prejudice: Woman and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada, Osgoode Society of Women's Press |
|
1990 |
Martin J. Sklar (co-winner) G. Edward White (co-winner) |
Corporate Reconstruction of American
Capitalism, 1890-1916, Cambridge University Press The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-35, MacMillan Press |
|
1988 |
David Langum (co-winner) Arthur McEvoy (co-winner) |
Law and Community on the
Mexican-California Frontier, University of Oklahoma Press The Fisherman's Problem, Cambridge University Press |
|
1986 |
Edward Ayers (co-winner) Richard Ferguson (co-winner) |
Vengeance and Justice, Oxford
University Press Law and Letters in American Culture, Harvard University Press |
|
1984 |
Peter H. Irons | New Deal Lawyers, Princeton University Press |
|
1982 |
Lawrence Friedman
and Robert Percival |
The Roots of Justice : Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910. University of North Carolina Press |
|
1980 |
Joseph
H. Smith and Julius H. Goebel |
The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary. Columbia University Press |