LSA Student Undergraduate (U)
and Gratduate (G) Paper Prize Winners
Year |
U / G |
Winner |
Paper Title |
Nominator |
| 2013 | U | Carter Greenbaum Princeton University |
Stories to Monies: Sociological Perspectives on the Meaning of Money In International Commercial Mediation | Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University |
| G | Amy Myrick Northwestern University |
Facing Your Criminal Record: Expungement and the Collateral Problem of Wrongfully Represented Self | Laura Beth Nielsen, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation | |
| 2012 | U | Chase S. Burton,
University of California, Berkeley |
Spare the Cell, Spoil the Child: Early History and Philosophy of American Juvenile Justice |
Michael Musheno, Legal Studies |
| G | Ben Grunwald, University of Pennsylvania | Questioning Blackmun's Thesis: Does Uniformity in Sentencing Entail Unfairness? |
Eric Feldman, School of Law |
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| 2011 | U | Kory Redding,
University of North Texas |
When the Chief Dissents: Examining the Institutional Consequences of Administrative Responsibilities, 1946-2008 | Paul M. Collins, Jr. Political Science |
| G | Shauhin A. Talesh, University of California, Berkeley | How Organizations Shape the Meaning of Law: A Comparative Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws | Lauren B. Edelman, Jurisprudence and Social Policy | |
| 2010 | U | Erin Mitchell,
Drake University |
Dangerous, Dirty and Disgusting: An Exploration of the American Narrative of Birth | Renee Cramer, Law, Politics and Society |
| G | Ashley T. Rubin, University of California, Berkeley | Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity at Eastern State Penitentiary: A Study of the Variation in Sentence Length, 1829-1871 | Malcolm Feeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy | |
| 2009 | U | Clare F. Ryan Macalester College |
Confronting Childhood: Courts and the Contradictions of Juvenile Justice | Patrick Schmidt, Political Science |
| G | Gwendolyn Leachman, University of California, Berkeley | Who Frames the Message? Counter Movements and Public Perception of Social Movements' Legal Agendas | Catherine Albiston, Jurisprudence and Social Policy | |
| 2008 | U | Patricia Bass Macalester College |
Regulating the ‘Social Mix:’ How and Why Do France and the U.S. Desegregate Housing | Eric Larson, Sociology |
| G | Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Berkeley | Myth‑making and the Collision of Rights in Sudan | Lauren Edelman, Jurisprudence and Social Policy | |
| 2007 | U | Rebecca Sheff Macalester College |
Strategic Choices in Diverse Contexts: The Maasai Indigenous Rights Movement | Eric Larson, Sociology |
| G | 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 | |
| 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 |
| G |
Ariel Meyerstein, University of California, Berkeley Scott Leon Washington Princeton University |
Between Law and Culture: Rwanda's Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality
|
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 1990 | G | co-winner)
Rebecca Eisner uth 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 |
TheRight 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 |
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| 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 | DeborahStone, Radcliffe College |