The Society offers a wide range of awards, prizes and fellowships. See below for information about the ones being offered in 2013 and about the winners in 2012. Lists of award winners, the citations for the awards, and announcements of competition for awards for the past few years may be found here. A more comprehensive list of past award winners (1983–2010) may be found on the page that lists past presidents and awards recipients.

• Surrency Prize
• Sutherland Prize
• J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute
• Research Awards and Fellowships:
•     Cromwell Fellowships
•         Application Process for 2013
•     Paul L. Murphy Award
•         Application Process for 2013
• Cromwell Prizes:
•     Cromwell Book Prize
•         Nomination Process for 2013
•     Cromwell Dissertation Prize
•         Nomination Process for 2013
•     Cromwell Article Prize
•         Nomination Process for 2013
• Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars
•         Application Process for 2013
• John Phillip Reid Book Award
•     Nomination Process for 2013

Surrency Prize

The Surrency Prize, named in honor of the late Erwin Surrency, a founding member of the Society and for many years the editor of its publication the American Journal of Legal History, is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Surrency Prize Committee, to the person or persons who wrote the best article published in the Society's journal, the Law and History Review, in the previous year.

The 2012 Surrency Prize was awarded to Rebecca J. Scott for her essay, “Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution,” which appeared  in  Law and History Review, Volume 29, Number 4, pages 1061–87.

The citation read:

“Rebecca Scott’s ‘Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution’ carefully reconstructs the passage of thousands of individuals who had been displaced by the Haitian Revolution from Saint-Domingue to Cuba and on to New Orleans.  Scott chronicles the shifting status of these refugees after the abolition of slavery by decree and then by the French National Convention from slave to free to slave and sometimes back again.  Her analysis of the bureaucracy of slavery – the process of designation that sometimes occurred peremptorily on the deck of a ship – and individual resistance to such designations scrutinizes an underexplored aspect of slavery’s machinery.  Scott’s detailed micro-history of the legal struggles of Adélaide Métayer/Durand in New Orleans to maintain her freedom and that of her children is a work of art.

“‘Paper Thin’ is richly sourced from multiple archives and in secondary literature in multiple languages, and the story-telling is gripping.  The Surrency Prize Committee was impressed by Scott’s mastery of this transnational tale and commends the essay as a model work of social, cultural, and legal history that challenges scholars to think about the ill-focused border between slavery and freedom in the Americas.”

The selection of the winner of the Surrency Prize for 2012 was under the charge of the Society’s Committee on the Surrency Prize. The members of the Committee for 2012 were:

Kenneth F. Ledford (2010), Chair, Case Western Reserve University <email>
David Abraham (2011), University of Miami <email>
Kristin A. Collins (2011), Boston University <email>
Elizabeth Kolsky (2011), Villanova University <email>
Matthew P. Harrington (2011), University of Montreal <email>

Sutherland Prize

The Sutherland Prize, named in honor of the late Donald W. Sutherland, a distinguished historian of the law of medieval England and a mentor of many students, is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Sutherland Prize Committee, to the person or persons who wrote the best article on English legal history published in the previous year.

The Sutherland Prize for 2012 was awarded to James Oldham of Georgetown University for: "Informal Lawmaking in England by the Twelve Judges in the late 18th and early 19th centuries," which appeared  in  Law and History Review, Volume 29, Number 1, pages 181–220.

The citation read:

"This article exhibits the strengths that have marked all of Professor Oldham’s scholarship.  It is the product of extensive work with original sources, fidelity to the evidence, and a willingness to confront hard but important questions.  This article also fills a real gap in what has been known about the development of English judicial institutions.  The Court from Crown Cases Reserved, created by Parliament in 1848, was preceded by a nearly identical but more informal institution – meetings of twelve judges to decide unsettled questions about the criminal law that had arisen in practice.  The article surveys the scattered evidence of these meetings, illustrating the kinds of legal questions they faced and the results of their deliberations. Then it fits this evidence into a larger picture, taking up what can be said about the use and growth of precedent, the development of the law of evidence, and many problems of statutory interpretation.  The article is interesting throughout and entirely convincing."

The selection of the winner of the Sutherland Prize for 2012 was under the charge of the Society’s Committee on the Sutherland Prize. The members of the Committee for 2012 were:

Richard Helmholz (2010), Chair, University of Chicago <email>
John Beattie (2009), University of Toronto <email>
Joshua C. Tate (2011), Southern Methodist University <email>

J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History

The Society's J. Willard Hurst Memorial Committee is charged with task of appropriately remembering the late J. Willard Hurst, who was for many years the dean of historians of American law. On the Committee's recommendation, the Society, in conjunction with the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School has sponsored six biennial J. Willard Hurst Summer Institutes in Legal History. The purpose of the Hurst Summer Institute is to advance the approach to legal scholarship fostered by J. Willard Hurst in his teaching, mentoring, and scholarship. The "Hurstian perspective" emphasizes the importance of understanding law in context; it is less concerned with the characteristics of law as developed by formal legal institutions than with the way in which positive law manifests itself as the "law in action." The Hurst Summer Institute assists young scholars from law, history, and other disciplines in pursuing research in legal history.

The sixth biennial Hurst Institute took place at the University of Wisconsin Law School on June 12 - June 24, 2011. The chair was Barbara Young Welke (University of Minnesota); guest scholars included Society members Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Pennsylvania), Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford University), Robert W. Gordon (Yale University), Dylan Penningroth (Northwestern University), Lauren Benton (New York University), and Christopher Tomlins (University of California-Irvine School of Law). A full account of the Institute, including the program and the names and biographies of the fellows, may be found on the Insitute's website.

The next Institute will be held from June 9 through June 22, 2013, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Hendrik A. Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Professor of History, and Director, Program in American Studies at Princeton University will lead the Institute. The application period is December 1, 2012 through January 15, 2013. Information concerning applications may be found here. The Society has recently concluded an agreement with the Wisconsin Law School that should ensure that there will be several more such conferences after the one in 2013.

Research Awards and Fellowships:

    Cromwell Fellowships

In 2013, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation* will make available of a number of fellowship awards intended to support research and writing in American legal history. The number of awards to be made, and their amounts, is at the discretion of the Foundation. In the past five years, the trustees of the Foundation have made three to five awards, in amounts up to $5,000. Preference is given to scholars at the early stages of their careers. The Society's Committee for Research Fellowships and Awards reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the Foundation.

In 2012, Cromwell fellowships were awarded to:

• James Allison, who received his J.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Ph.D. Candidate, History at the University of Virginia for his project entled: “Sovereignty and Survival: American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination”;


• Anne Fleming, a Ph.D. Candidate in history a the University of Pennsylvania for her project entitled: “City of Debtors: Law, Loan Sharks, and the Shadow Economy of Urban Poverty, 1900–1970”;


• Hidetaka Hirota who has complted his Ph.D. and is a Postdoctoral Fellow in history at Boston College for his project: “Don’t Give Me Your Huddled Masses: Pauper Deportation and the Origins of American Immigration Policy”;


• Ryan Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Minnesota for his project entitled: “Enemies of the State: Knowing, Producing, and Policing Anarchism in the Making of the American National Security State, 1901–1921; and
  


• Suzanne Kahn, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University for her project entitled: “Divorce and the Politics of the Social Welfare Regime, 1969–2001.”

* The Cromwell Foundation was established in 1930 to promote and encourage scholarship in legal history, particularly in the colonial and early national periods of the United States. The Foundation has supported the publication of legal records as well as historical monographs.

        Application Process for 2013

Cornelia Hughes Dayton of the University of Connecticut <email> is the chair of the Society's Committee for Research Fellowships and Awards, with members: Bruce Mann (ex officio, ASLH President), Harvard University; Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont; Victoria D. List, Washington and Jefferson College; William E. Nelson, New York University; Kunal Parker, University of Miami; and Victoria Saker Woeste, American Bar Foundation. Information on the application process for 2013 will be posted on this site as soon as it is available.

Applicants should submit a description of their proposed project (double-spaced, maximum 6 pages, with working title), a budget, a timeline, and a short c.v. (no longer than 3 pages). (There is no application form.) Two letters of recommendation from academic referees should be sent directly to the Committee Chair via email attachment. Applications must be submitted electronically (preferably in one .pdf file) no later than July 15, 2013.

Successful applicants will be notified after the annual meeting of the Cromwell Foundation, which normally takes place in the second week of November. An announcement of the awards will also be made at the annual meeting of the American Society of Legal History in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 7–10, 2013

To apply, please send all materials to the chair of the Committee: Professor Cornelia Hughes Dayton <email>.

 Paul L. Murphy Awards

Paul L. Murphy (1923–1997) spent much of his career at the University of Minnesota where he rose to the rank of Regent’s Professor of History and American Studies. At the time of his death, he was in the second year of his term as president of the ASLH. During his tenure at Minnesota he became one of the nation’s leading constitutional historians and a mentor to generations of undergraduate and graduate students.* Under the auspices of the Society, many of those students contributed to a fund to honor Murphy’s memory by supporting research in United States constitutional history. Within that broad field, and reflecting Murphy's interests and accomplishments, those who wished to honor his memory were particularly interested in supporting research in civil liberties.

* A tribute to him, with much information about his life and works, may be found in Kermit L. Hall, Robert Kaczorowski, John Johnson and Sandra VanBurkleo, “Paul L. Murphy 1923–1997”, Law and History Review, 16 (Spring 1998) ix-xi.

At its meeting in Atlanta in November of 2011, the board of the Society voted to devote that money to offering two one-time awards of $5,000 to support the completion of books on civil liberties of any sort in any period of American history. The responsibility for making the awards was delegated to the Committee on the Paul L. Murphy Awards. The members of the Committee are:

Mary L. Dudziak, Chair, Emory University <email>
Robert Kaczorowski, Fordham University <email>
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania <email>
David M. Rabban, University of Texas <email>

In 2012, the Committee made one of these awards to Sam Lebovic who received his Ph.D. in history is from the University of Chicago and is currently a fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University. The Committee's citation read as follows:

“The Paul Murphy Award for 2012 is made to Sam Lebovic for his book project Beyond the First Amendment: The Problem of Press Freedom in the American Century. Lebovic’s project is exciting and original.  In this legal, political and cultural history of press freedom and the First Amendment in the United States from 1919 to the 1970s, Lebovic argues that press freedom encompassed more than the freedom to speak and publish. Going well beyond the history of litigants, courts and caselaw, he recovers a version of freedom of the press based on the public’s right to know, and pursued by journalists, politicians, lawyers and philosophers. The free-flow of information was jeopardized by the rise of totalitarianism, the power of corporate media, and the growth of the national security state. In the context of a Cold War focus on secrecy, a New Deal-era effort to limit consolidation of the media and to promote a broad public right to know was “debated, contested, and ultimately defeated,” leaving the more prevalent concept of freedom of speech as protecting only an individual right of expression. Lebovic’s approach is multi-layered and ambitious, historicizing the right to information and conceptions of free speech in the context of a changing political culture.  He ranges from the labor politics of the news media in the 1930s, to the national security classification system, to the centralization of the news industry, and many of the topics and sources in this work are very important and understudied. The result promises to be a brilliant reconfiguration of press freedom.” 

        Application Process for 2013

The committee will make another award in 2013. Nominees at all levels of seniority will be considered; the award is not, however, for the completion of a dissertation. To be considered for this award, authors or nominators should send a book proposal with chapter descriptions, a discussion of the book’s contributions, and a time-line for completion; a sample chapter; and a c.v. to committee chair Professor Mary L. Dudziak <email>. Submissions via e-mail are preferred, and attachments can be in Word or PDF. Please put “Murphy Prize” in the subject line. If you must submit by hard copy, please send four copies of these materials to arrive by the deadline to this address: Professor Mary L. Dudziak, Emory School of Law, 1301 Clifton Rd NE Atlanta Georgia 30322. The deadline for receipt of proposals for this year’s award is June 30, 2013.

Cromwell Prizes

    Cromwell Book Prize

William Nelson Cromwell

In 2012 the Cromwell Book Prize was awarded to Daniel J. Sharfstein for The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, published by Penguin Press in 2011. The committee's citation read as follows:

"In this thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and intensely moving book, Daniel Sharfstein tracks the experiences of many generations of three families originally classified as ‘black’ as they found new identities across the color line. His massive research, which combines a tireless and ingenious search for sources and sensitive interviews of living subjects, is almost invisible, thanks to prose that combines the lawyerly virtues of clarity and precision with the literary ones of sympathy and grace. The people in this book become almost palpable as they navigate the treacherous waters of racial identity. So does an important historical fact. The color line was never simply a matter of black and white; it was a legal and social construction that accommodated the informal perceptions of color that neighbors and associates acted on every day. Whatever the law in the books, courts were often reluctant to change the racial status of persons who had been acting white or had been treated as white or had white friends and enjoyed high social status. The Invisible Line makes a major breakthrough in the study of the law of race by showing how it was performed in the lives of ordinary people throughout American history."

The chair of the Society's Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award and the chair of the Subcommittee on the Cromwell Book Prize of the Cromwell Advisory Committee have issued a joint announcement on the nomination process for 2013: The Reid Award and the Cromwell Book Prize are mutually exclusive.  The Cromwell Book Prize is awarded for first books, wholly or primarily written while the author was untenured.   The Reid Award is for a first or subsequent book written by a mid-career or senior scholar.  For advice in doubtful cases, please consult  Daniel Ernst, chair of the Subcommittee on the Cromwell Book Prize, and Sophia Lee, chair of the ASLH Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award.

Professor Jane Dailey, 600 N. Fairbanks Court, #3702, Chicago, IL  60611

    Cromwell Dissertation Prize

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation* has generously funded a prize of $2500 for dissertations accepted in the previous calendar year. The Foundation awards the prize on the recommendation of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee of the American Society for Legal History.  The Society announces the award after the annual meeting of the Cromwell Foundation, which normally takes place early in November.

* For a brief description of the Foundation, see above Cromwell Fellowships.

The Foundation awarded the Cromwell Dissertation Prize for 2012 to Laura Weinrib “The Liberal Compromise: Civil Liberties, Labor, and the Limits of State Power, 1917-1940”—a dissertation submitted for the Ph.D. degree in history at Princeton University in 2011. The Advisory Committee's citation read as follows:

“In this gracefully written, deeply researched and incisively presented study, Laura Weinrib offers a sophisticated account of how the current American conception of civil liberties emerged. The study rests not only on a sure command of the secondary sources but on a careful examination of the papers of the ACLU--in particular its early records and those of its predecessor organization--between the two World Wars. Weinrib demonstrates how an initial theory of civil liberties, aligned with a commitment to labor radicalism and a ‘right of agitation’ by the working-class, gradually developed into a commitment to a politically neutralprotection of the civil rights of each individual as embodied in the Bill of Rights. Weinrib traces this transformation through a series of contested organizational shifts during the 1920s and 1930s and shows how this evolving vision of civil liberties shaped the post-New Deal constitutional order and left a legacy far different from earlier understandings.”

The Committee also honorably mentioned “From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-War South, 1865-1920,” by Melissa Milewski—a dissertation submitted for the Ph.D. degree in history at New York University.

    Nomination Process for 2013

To be considered for this year's prize, please send one hard-copy to John D. Gordan, III, Chair, Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee, 1133 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10128, and to each of the following members of the subcommittee for the dissertation prize with a postmark no later than May 31, 2013:

Christian G. Fritz, Chair, Cromwell Dissertation Prize Advisory Subcommittee
Professor of Law
University of New Mexico
School of Law
1117 Stanford NE
MSC 11 6070
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Joanna L. Grisinger, Senior Lecturer, Legal Studies Program,
Center for Legal Studies
1-111 Crowe Hall
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208

Dr. Maeva Marcus, Director
Institute for Constitutional History
The New York Historical Society and
The George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street NW
Washington DC 20052

Michael Ross, Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Maryland
2115 Francis Scott Key
College Park, MD 20742

Cromwell Article Prize

In the past, the Cromwell Dissertation prize has also been open to articles of "comparable scope" as a dissertation. With the decline, however, of the "monster" article that used to grace the pages of law reviews, there are relatively few articles that meet that criterion. The Cromwell Advisory Committee has read a number of articles that have been submitted for the Dissertation/Article prize, some of very high quality indeed, but they did not stand much of a chance of winning when compared to the doctoral dissertations that were also submitted. The Committee brought this to the attention of the Cromwell Foundation, and the Foundation generously agreed to fund a separate prize of $2,500 for articles in the general field of American legal history (broadly conceived), with some preferance for those in the area of early America or the colonial period. A substantial preference will be given to first articles, written by scholars who are not yet tenured. An Article published in the Law and History Review is eligible for the Surrency Prize and will not be considered for the Cromwell Article Prize.

In 2012, the Cromwell Foundation awarded the article prize to David Freeman Engstrom for his article “The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-1972,” which appeared in volume 63 of the Stanford Law Review in 2011. The Advisory Committee's citation read:

“During deliberations Committee members praised Engstrom’s deep look at the strategies employed by various civil rights groups to craft fair employment law, along with his intensive archival work across a wide range of sources, to tell a new story about how civil rights emerged not just from statutes and from judicial interpretation, but from the administrative state as well. Recent monographs have begun to open up the story of civil rights in the post-War period by showing that civil rights action activism emerged in many places, not just on southern streets in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, and not just in education and in public accommodations. Engstrom, an assistant professor at Stanford Law School, extends that analysis to the employment setting. In telling this new story, he extensively mined the federal archives. This is an important and neglected story that stretches across decades as our nation moved from the Second World War through the Civil Rights movement and then its ending. It is also an extraordinary work of research, which invites us to see how administrative law functions and is central to our legal history.”

    Nomination Process for 2013

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has generously funded a prize of $2,500 for an excellent article in American legal history published by an early career scholar in 2012.  Articles published in 2012 in the field of American legal history, broadly conceived, will be considered.  There is a preference for articles in the colonial and early National periods.  Articles published in the Law and History Review are eligible for the Surrency Prize and will not be considered for the Cromwell Article Prize.

The Cromwell Foundation makes the final award, in consultation with a subcommittee from the American Society for Legal History.  This subcommittee invites nominations for the article prize; authors are invited to nominate themselves or others may nominate works meeting the criteria that they have read and enjoyed.  Please send a brief letter of nomination, no longer than a page, along with an electronic or hard copy of the article, by May 31, 2013, to the subcommittee's chair, Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law, Campus Box #3380, Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3380 or via email. Other members of the Articles Subcomittee of the Cromwell Prizes Advisory Committee are are Mary Sarah Bilder of Boston College, Daniel W. Hamilton of the University of Illinois, and Kristin A. Olbertson of Alma College.

Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars

Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to young legal historians, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers. At the annual meeting of the Society two younger legal historians designated Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will present what would normally be their first papers to the Society. The generosity of Professor Preyer's friends and family has enabled the Society to offer a small honorarium to the Preyer Scholars and to reimburse, in some measure or entirely, their costs of attending the meeting. The competition for Preyer Scholars is organized by the Society's Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Committee.

In 2012, the Preyer Memorial Committee chose two Preyer Scholars:

• Sarah Levine-Gronnigsatar ( University of Chicago) for her paper “Poor Law, Slave Law, God’s Law: Quaker Antislavery and the Early Modern Origins of New York’s Gradual Emancipation”; and


• Taisu Zhang (Yale University) for his paper “Kinship Networks, Social Status and the Creation of Property Rights in Early Modern China and England”

    Application Process for 2013

The members of the Preyer Memorial Committee for 2013 are:

Submissions are welcome on any topic in legal, institutional and/or constitutional history.  Early career scholars, including those pursuing graduate or law degrees, those who have completed their terminal degree within the previous year, and those independent scholars at a comparable state, are eligible to apply. Papers already submitted to the ASLH Program Committee--whether or not accepted for an existing panel--and papers never previously submitted are equally eligible. Once selected, Preyer Award winners must present their paper as part of the Preyer panel, and they will be removed from any other panel.

Papers must not exceed 40 pages (12 point font, double-spaced) and must contain supporting documentation.  In past competitions, the Committee has given preference to draft articles and essays, though the Committee will still consider shorter conference papers.

Submissions should be a single MS Word document consisting of a complete curriculum vitae, contact information, and a complete draft of the paper to be presented. The draft may be longer than could be presented in the time available at the meeting (twenty minutes), but one of the criteria for selection will be the suitability of the paper for reduction to a twenty-minute oral presentation. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2013. The Preyer Scholars will be named by August 1.

Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will receive a $250 cash award and reimbursement of expenses up to $750 for travel, hotels, and meals. Each will present the paper that s/he submitted to the competition at the Society's annual meeting in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on November 7-10, 2013.  The Society’s journal, Law and History Review, has published several past winners of the Preyer competition, though it is under no obligation to do so.

Please send submissions as Microsoft Word attachments by June 30, 2013, to the chair of the Preyer Committee, Gautham Rao <email>.  He will forward them to the other committee members.

John Phillip Reid Book Award

John Phillip Reid

In 2012 the Reid Prize was awarded to Tomiko Brown-Nagin for Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights, published by the Oxford University Press in 2011. The committee's citation read:

“Brown-Nagin sets out to answer the question of ‘what would the story of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights look like if legal historians de-centered the U.S. Supreme Court, the national NAACP, and the NAACP LDF and instead considered the movement from the bottom up?’ To answer this question, she considers the usual landmark civil rights cases but does so with a detailed examination of the actors involved in the civil rights movement in a major American city. It is not only the officers and lawyers of the national and local organizations involved in the civil rights movement who appear in Nagin’s account, but teachers, real estate agents, students, shopowners, and single mothers, among others. Brown-Nagin highlights the class, gender, generational, and ideological differences among Atlanta’s civil rights lawyers, activists, and laypeople, which fuelled responses to racial discrimination ranging from elite accommodation to civil disobedience to outright confrontation. The result is that the legal and racial geography of Atlanta, the city that long prided itself on being ‘too busy to hate’, has never been so vividly drawn or acutely analyzed.

From this canvas of conflict, Brown-Nagin derives fresh insights about the nature of legal change, the competing demands of the legal profession, the power of social movements, and the meaning of the postwar struggle for racial equality. In particular, she argues that litigation’s ability to catalyze change is most potent when the lawyers take their cues from the movement, instead of vice versa.”

    Nomination Process for 2013

The chair of the Society's Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award and the chair of the Subcommittee on the Cromwell Book Prize of the Cromwell Advisory Committee have issued a joint announcement on the nomination process for 2013: The Reid Award and the Cromwell Book Prize are mutually exclusive.  The Cromwell Book Prize is awarded for first books, wholly or primarily written while the author was untenured.   The Reid Award is for a first or subsequent book written by a mid-career or senior scholar.  For advice in doubtful cases, please consult  Daniel Ernst, chair of the Subcommittee on the Cromwell Book Prize, and Sophia Lee, chair of the ASLH Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award.

For the 2013 prize, the Reid Award Committee will accept nominations from authors, presses, or anyone else, of any book that bears a copyright date in 2012. Nominations for the Reid Award should be submitted May 31, 2013, by sending a curriculum vitae of the author and one copy of the book to each member of the committee:

Professor Sophia Z. Lee, Chair, Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 3400 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104<email>

Catharine Macmillan, Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Professor Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820