- 2023
Will Smiley
“Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions” Law and History Review 40:2 (2022): 229-259
- 2023
Honorable Mention: Alexandre Pelegrino
"From Slaves to Índios: Empire, Slavery, and Race (Maranhão, Brazil, c.1740–90)" Law and History Review 40:4 (2022): 789-815
- 2022
Jessica Marglin
“Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean” Law and History Review 39:4 (2021): 679-706
- 2021
Kalyani Ramnath
“Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Decolonization, and International Law in Post-World War II South Asia” Law and History Review, 38, no. 1 (February 2020), 1-24.
- 2020
Kaius Tuori
“Narratives and Normativity: Totalitarianism and Narrative Change in the European Legal Tradition after World War II,” Law and History Review [37: 605-638]
- 2019
Catherine L. Evans
“Heart of Ice: Indigenous Defendants and Colonial Law in the Canadian North-West,” Law and History Review [36: 199-234]
- 2018
Natasha Wheatley
“Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law: On New Ways of Not Being a State,” Law and History Review [35: 753-757]
- 2017
Jeffrey S. Adler
“The Greatest Thrill I Get is When I Hear a Criminal Say, ‘Yes, I Did It’: Race and the Third Degree in New Orleans, 1920-1945,” Law and History Review [34: 1-44]
- 2016
James Campbell
“Murder Appeals, Delayed Executions, and the Origins of Jamaican Death Penalty Jurisprudence” Law and History Review [33: 435-466]
- 2016
Christopher W. Schmidt
“Divided by Law: The Sit-ins and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement,” Law and History Review [33: 93-149]
- 2015
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
“Paper Routes: Inscribing Islamic Law across the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean,” Law and History Review [32: 797-820]
- 2014
David Fraser and Frank Caestecker
“Jews or Germans? Nationality Legislation and the Restoration of Liberal Democracy in Western Europe after the Holocaust,” Law and History Review [31: 391-422]
- 2013
Laura M. Weinrib
“The Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech,” Law and History Review [30: 325-386]
- 2012
Rebecca J. Scott
“Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution” Law and History Review [29:1061-1087]
- 2011
Michelle McKinley
“Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1689” Law and History Review [28:749-790]
- 2010
Daniel R. Ernst
“The Politics of Administrative Law: New York’s Anti-Bureaucracy Clause and the O’Brian-Wagner Campaign of 1938” Law and History Review [27:331-371]
- 2009
Gautham Rao
“The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine: Slavery, Compulsion, and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America” Law and History Review [26:1-56]
- 2008
Hekki Pihlajamäki
“The Painful Question: The Fate of Judicial Torture in Early Modern Sweden” Law and History Review [25:557-592]
- 2007
Alison D. Morantz
“There’s No Place Like Home: Homestead Exemption and Judicial Constructions of Family in Nineteenth-Century America” Law and History Review [24:245-295]
- 2007
John W. Wertheimer
“Gloria’s Story: Adulterous Concubinage and the Law in Twentieth-Century Guatemala” Law and History Review [24:375-421]
- 2006
Andrea McKenzie
“‘This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose’: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England” Law and History Review [23:279-313]
- 2006
Honorable Mention: Sally H. Clarke
“Unmanageable Risks: MacPherson v. Buick and the Emergence of the Mass Consumer Market” Law and History Review [23:1-52]
- 2005
Amalia D. Kessler
“Enforcing Virtue: Social Norms and Self-Interest in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Court” Law and History Review [22:71-118]
- 2004
Sarah Hanley
“‘The Jurisprudence of the Arrêts’: Marital Union, Civil Society, and State Formation in France, 1550-1650” Law and History Review [21:1-40]
- 2004
Daniel J. Hulsebosch
“The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke’s British Jurisprudence” Law and History Review [21:439-82]
- 2003
Stephen Jacobsen
“Law and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Case of Catalonia in Comparative Perspective” Law and History Review [20:307-347]
- 2003
Honorable Mention: Ronen Shamir
“The Comrades Law of Hebrew Workers in Palestine: A Study in Socialist Justice” Law and History Review [20:279-305]
- 2002
Maria Ågren
“Asserting One’s Rights: Swedish Property Law in the Transition from Community Law to State Law” Law and History Review [19:241-282]
- 2001
James A. Jaffe
“Industrial Arbitration, Equity, and Authority in England, 1800-1850” Law and History Review [18:525-58]
- 2000
Norma Landau
“Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor’s Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions” Law and History Review [17:507-536]
- 1999
Christine A. Desan
“Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of Empire: The Creation of Legislative Adjudication in Colonial New York” Law and History Review [16:257-317]
- 1999
Michael Willrich
“The Two Percent Solution: Eugenic Jurisprudence and the Socialization of American Law, 1900-1930” Law and History Review [16:63-111]
- 1998
G. Edward White
“The American Law Institute and the Triumph of Modernist Jurisprudence” Law and History Review [15:1-47]
- 1997
Timothy S. Haskett
“The Medieval Court of Chancery” Law and History Review [14:245-313]
- 1996
Barbara Y. Welke
“When All the Women Were White and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class, and Race on the Road to Plessy, 1855-1914” Law and History Review [13:261-316]
- 1995
George Behlmer
“Summary Justice and Working-Class Marriage in England, 1870-1940” Law and History Review [12:229-275]
- 1994
Philip Girard
“Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture Beamish Murdoch and his Epitome of the Laws of Nova Scotia” Law and History Review [11:101-144]
- 1992
Peter Karsten
“The ‘Discovery’ of Law by English and American Jurists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries: Third-Party Beneficiary Contracts as a Test Case” Law and History Review [9:327-381]
- 1991
N.E.H. Hull
“Restatement and Reform: A New Perspective on the Origins of the American Law Institute” Law and History Review [8:55-96]
- 1991
Eileen Spring
“The Heiress-at-Law: English Real Property from a New Point of View” Law and History Review [8:273-296]
- 1990
Paul Romney
“From Constitutionalism to Legalism: Trial By Jury, Responsible Government, and the Rule of Law in the Canadian Political Culture” Law and History Review [7: 121-174]
- 1990
Richard M. Fraher
“Conviction According to Conscience: the Medieval Jurists’ Debate Concerning Judicial Discretion and the Law of Proof” Law and History Review [7: 23-88]
- 1989
Christopher L. Tomlins
“A Mysterious Power: Industrial Accidents and the Legal Construction of Employment Relations in Massachusetts, 1800-1850” Law and History Review [6:375-438]
- 1988
Gregory S. Alexander
“The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800-1914” Law and History Review [5:303-350]
- 1987
David J. Ibbetson
“Words and Deeds: The Action of Covenant in the Reign of Edward I” Law and History Review [4: 71-94]
- 1985
M.H. Hoeflich
“Regulation of Judicial Misconduct from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages” Law and History Review [2: 79-104]
- 1983
Judith Romney Wegner
“Islamic and Talmudic Jurisprudence: the Four Roots of Islamic Law and Their Talmudic Counterparts” AJLH [26: 25-71]
- 1982
Michael Dalby
“Revenge in the Law in Traditional China” AJLH [25: 267-307]
