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.

2011 Edward S. Corwin Award Recipient

List of All Edward S. Corwin Award Recipients

Nomination Information

The deadline for submitting nominations has passed. Information on the 2013 APSA Awards will be released in the fall.

2012 Award Committee

Chair: Melinda Gann Hall
Michigan State University
Political Science
303 S Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1032
hallme@msu.edu

Jeffrey A. Segal
Stony Brook University
Political Science
SBS Bldg Rm S701
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4392
jsegal@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Georg Vanberg
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Political Science
CB# 3265 Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
gvanberg@unc.edu

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