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The Littleton-Griswold Prize is an annual award given "for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society." The current award is $1,000. The latest winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American law and society is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the prize. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards and prizes featured on Happy Dead Trees
The Latest Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society 2007 - Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism by Dalia Tsuk Mithell [2008 award will be announced Spring 2009]
All past Winners of the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society 1966 - The Legal Papers of John Adams edited by L. Kinpin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel
1985 - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic by R. Kent Newmyer
1986 - Governing the Hearth: Law and Family in Nineteenth Century America by Michael Grossberg
1987 - The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925 - 1950 by Mark Tushnet
1988 - The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and the Law in California Fisheries, 1850 - 1980 by Arthur F. McEvoy
1989 - The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Rhetoric to Judicial Doctrine by William E. Nelson
1990 - The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia, 1800 - 1880 by Allen Steinberg
1991 - Abe Fortas by Laura Kalman
1992 - Enterprise and American Law, 1836 - 1937 by Herbert Hovencamp
1993 - Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic by Christopher L. Tomlins
1994 - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self by G. Edward White
1995 - Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America 1900 - 1933 by Morton Keller
1996 - Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism by Daniel R. Ernst
1997 - The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America by William J. Novak
1998 - Rethinking the New Deal Court The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution by Barry Cushman
1999 - No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship by Linda K. Kerber
2000 - The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South by Gail Williams O'Brien
2001 - Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation by Karl Jacoby
2002 - Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865 - 1920 by Barbara Young Welke
2003 - Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of Amercian Independence by Bruce H. Mann
2004 - Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
2005 - The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire by Mary Sarah Bilder
2006 - Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664 - 1830 by Daniel J. Hulsebosch
2007 - Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism by Dalia Tsuk Mithell
2008 - Award will be announced early 2009
The Official Website of the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society
(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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