Organized Section 2: C. Herman Pritchett Award
Law and Courts Section Award Recipients
C. Herman Pritchett Award
The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year.
| 2017 | Ezequiel A. Gonzales-Octanos, University of Oxford Shifting Legal Visions – Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention Lauren Edelman, University of California, Berkeley Working Law – Courts, Coporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights. University of Chicago Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona College Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| 2015 | Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections. Stanford University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Traci Burch, Northwestern University Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation. University of Chicago Press |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention Mark Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan. Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Diana Kapiszewski, University of California, Irvine High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil (Cambridge, 2012) |
| 2012 | Matthew Hall, Saint Louis University The Nature of Supreme Court Power (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | Sean Farhang, University of California, Berkeley The Litigation State, (Princeton University Press) |
| 2011 | Honorable Mention Michael Paris, CUNY-College of Staten Island Framing Educational Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform (Stanford University Press) |
| 2010 | Eileen Braman, Indiana University Law, Politics and Perception: How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning (University of Virginia Press, 2009) |
| 2010 | Gordon Silverstein, University of California, Berkeley Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves and Kills Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2009) |
| 2009 | Paul Collins Jr., University of North Texas Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 2008) |
| 2008 | Keith Whittington, Princeton University Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court and Constitutional Leadership (Princeton University Press) |
| 2008 | Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2007 | Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior |
| 2006 | Peter Russell, University of Toronto Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonies (University of Toronto Press, 2005) |
| 2005 | William Haltom, University of Puget Sound Distorting The Law: Politics, Media, And The Litigation Crisis. Chicago: (University of Chicago Press) |
| 2005 | Michael McCann, University of Washington, Seattle Distorting The Law: Politics, Media, And The Litigation Crisis. (University of Chicago Press) |
| 2004 | Tom Ginsburg, University of Illinois College of Law Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts In Asian Cases (Cambridge University Press, 2003) |
| 2004 | George Lovell Legislative Deferrals: Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy (Cambridge University Press) |
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