Edward S. Corwin Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Dissertation | Submitted by |
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| 2019 | Yasser Kureshi | Judging the Generals: Judicial-Military Interactions in Authoritarian and Post-Authoritatian States | Brandeis University |
| 2018 | Abigail Matthews | Connected Courts: The Diffusion of Precedent Across State Supreme Courts | University of Iowa |
| 2017 | Allison Harris | Who’s on the Bench?: Political Implications of Judicial Characteristics and Judicial Selection Methods in the U.S. | University of Chicago |
| 2016 | Jud Mathews | Constitutional Rights, Private Law, and Judicial Power | Yale University |
| 2015 | Matthew Hitt | Judgment-Rationale Inconsistency in the US Supreme Court | Ohio State University |
| 2014 | Rachel Hinkle | The Role of the United States Courts of Appeals in Legal Development | Washington University, St. Louis |
| 2013 | Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos | The Collapse of Impunity in Latin America: Legal Culture, Strategic Litigation and Judicial Behavior | University of Notre Dame |
| 2012 | Lauren McCarthy | Trafficking (In)justice: Law Enforcement’s Response to Human Trafficking in Russia | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2011 | Emily Zackin | Positive Constitutional Rights in the United States | Princeton University |
| 2010 | Patrick Peel | Building Judicial Capacity in the Early American State: Legal Populism, County Courts, and Credit, 1645-1860 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2009 | Mark Massoud | Who Rules the Law? How Government, Aid Agencies, and Civil Society Manipulate Law in Sudan | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2008 | Diana Kapiszewsk | Challenging Decisions: High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2007 | Maria Dimitrova Popova | Judicial Independence and Political Competition: Electoral and Defamation Disputes in Russia and Ukraine | Harvard University |
| 2006 | Justin J. Wert | The Not-So-Great Writ: Habeas Corpus and American Political Development | University of Oklahoma |
| 2005 | Lori A. Johnson | Who Governs the Guardians? The Politics of Policymaking for Federal Courts | Mercer University |
| 2005 | Martin J. Sweet | Supreme Policymaking: Coping with the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Policies | Honors College, Florida Atlantic University |
| 2004 | Tamir Moustafa | Law Versus the State: The Expansion of Constitutional Power in Egypt, 1980-2001 | University of Wisconsin |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Kaplan Staton | Judicial Activism and Public Authority Compliance: The Role of Public Support in the Mexican Separation-Of-Powers System | Washington University |
| 2002 | Nancy Scherer | Making a Point: The Politicization of Lower Federal Court Appointments in the Modern Political Era | University of Chicago |
| 2001 | Michael Ebeid | Influencing the Supreme Court: Democratic Accountability and the Presidential Threat to Judicial Independence | Yale University |
| 2000 | Kenneth I. Kersch | Frames of Progress: The Political Imagination of Rights and Liberties in the United States Supreme Court | Cornell University |
| 1999 | Kathleen Ann Uradnik | Government by Consent Decree: San Francisco’s Struggle for Institutional Reform | University of California |
| 1998 | Christopher J. Zorn | U.S. Government Litigation Strategies in the Federal Appellate Courts | Ohio State University |
| 1997 | Thomas F. Burke | Litigation and its Discontents: The Politics of Adversarial Legalism | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1996 | Charles R. Epp | Constitutional Courts and the Rights Agenda in Comparative Perspective | University of Wisconsin |
| 1995 | Cary Coglianese | Challenging the Rules, Litigation and Bargaining in the Administrative Process | University of Michigan |
| 1995 | James F. Spriggs, II | The Impact of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Federal Administrative Agencies, 1954-1990 | Washington University |
| 1994 | Deena Rabinowicz Dugan | The Politics of Medical Malpractice Reform in the American States | Johns Hopkins University |
| 1994 | Susan Brodie Haire | Judges’ Decisions in the United States Courts of Appeals: A Reassessment of Geographical Patterns in Judicial Behavior | University of South Carolina |
| 1993 | Andrew Koppelman | The Antidiscrimination Project: Foundations, Scope, Limits | Yale University |
| 1992 | No award given |
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| 1991 | Terri Jennings Peretti | The Responsible Exercise of Judicial Power: In Defense of a Political Court | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1990 | James W. Tubbs | Roman Law Mind, Common Law Mind | Johns Hopkins University |
| 1989 | Mark Graber | The Transformation of the Modern Constitutional Defense of Free Speech | Yale University |
| 1988 | Graham Walker | The Deep Structure of Contemporary Constitutional Controversy: Morality, Skepticism and Augustine | University of Notre Dame |
| 1987 | H. W. Perry, Jr. | Deciding to Decide: The Agenda-Setting Process in the United States Supreme Court | University of Michigan |
| 1986 | Susan E. Lawrence | The Poor in Court: The Legal Impact of Expanded Access | Johns Hopkins University |
| 1985 | Kim Lane Scheppele | Legal Secrets: Common-Law Rules and the Social Distribution of Knowledge | University of Chicago |
| 1984 | Donald A. Downs | Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment: The Skokie Case and the Limits of Speech | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1983 | Mark Silverstein | Liberalism, Democracy, and the Court: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, and Constitutional Decision-Making | Cornell University |
| 1982 | Timothy O’Neill | The Politics of Equality: Litigational Politics and Democratic Theory | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1981 | Stanley Charles Brubaker | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: An Intellectual Biography | University of Virginia |
| 1980 | Calvin Jillson | Compromise and Critical Realignment in the American Constitutional Convention of 1787 | University of Maryland |
| 1979 | Harry N. Hirsch | The Uses of Psychology in Judicial Biography: Felix Frankfurter and the Ambiguities of Self-Image | Princeton University |
| 1979 | Irving Frederick Lefberg | Analyzing Judicial Change: The Uses of ‘Systematic Biography’ in Anticipating the Court and Shaping Its Future Policies | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1978 | Philip Leon Dubois | Judicial Elections in the States: Patterns and Consequences | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1977 | Milton Heumann | Adapting to Plea Bargaining: The Experience of Prosecutors, Judges and Defense Attorneys | Yale University |
| 1976 | Thomas Uhlman | Racial Justice: Black Judges and Defendants in the Metro City Criminal Court, 1968-1974 | University of North Carolina |
| 1975 | No award given |
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| 1974 | James E. Radcliffe | The Case-or-Controversy Provision — How Limited Is the Political Role of the Federal Courts? | Pennsylvania State University |
| 1973 | Lief Hastings Carter | The Limits of Order: Uncertainty and Adaptation in a District Attorney’s Office | University of California |
| 1972 | Walter G. Markham | Offenders in the Federal Courts: A Search for the Social Correlates of Justices | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1971 | Douglas E. Rosenthal | Client Participation in Professional Decision: The Lawyer-Client Relationship in Personal Injury Claims | Yale University |
| 1970 | No award given |
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| 1969 | James P. Levine | The Bookseller and the Law of Obscenity: Toward an Empirical Theory of Free Expression | Northwestern University |
| 1968 | No award given |
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| 1967 | Richard Richardson | A Study of the Judicial Process in Three U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1956-1961 | Tulane University |
| 1966 | William K. Muir, Jr. | Law and Attitude Change | Yale University |
| 1965 | John D. Sprague | Voting Patterns on the United States Supreme Court: Cases in Federalism, 1889-1959 | Washington University |
| 1964 | David F. Hughes | Salmon P. Chase: Chief Justice | Centre College of Kentucky |