Edward S. Corwin Award

The Edward S. Corwin prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation in the field of public law. It carries a prize of $750.

The Corwin award is for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year or the previous year in the field of public law, broadly defined to include the judicial process, judicial behavior, judicial biography, courts, law, legal systems, the American constitutional system, civil liberties, or any other substantial area, or any work which deals in a significant fashion with a topic related to or having substantial impact on the American Constitution.

Edward S. Corwin was a former Association president who is nationally known and widely published. He consulted with many other academics as well as politicians involved with constitutional issues, most notably when he publicly supported Franklin D. Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization ("court packing") plan.

2009 Edward S. Corwin Award Recipient

List of All Edward S. Corwin Award Recipients

2010 Nomination Information

Departments are requested to submit a letter of nomination and a copy of the dissertation to each award committee member, and a letter of nomination only to the APSA office by January 15, 2010. Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation to the APSA office.

2010 Award Committee

Chair: Kathryn Hendley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Law School
975 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
khendley@wisc.edu

Thomas F. Burke
Wellesley College
Political Science
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
tburke@wellesley.edu

Gordon Silverstein
University of California, Berkeley
Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
gsilver@berkeley.edu

Corwin Award
APSA
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

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