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.

2008 Edward S. Corwin Award Recipient

List of All Edward S. Corwin Award Recipients

2009 Nomination Information

Departments are requested to submit a letter of nomination and a copy of the dissertation to each award committee member and to the APSA National Office by January 15, 2009.

2009 Award Committee

Lisa Conant
University of Denver
Political Science
2000 Asbury Avenue
Suite 466
Denver, CO 80208
conant@du.edu

Doris Marie Provine
712 East Geneva Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282-3737
marie.provine@asu.edu

James R. Stoner, Jr.
Louisiana State University
Political Science
240 Stubbs Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5433
poston@lsu.edu

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

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