Law and Courts

The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research in the areas of law and the judicial process.

Website: www.law.nyu.edu/lawcourts/

Law and Politics Book Review is available at: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/

Law and Courts: The Newsletter of the Law and Courts Section of the APSA is available at:  www.law.nyu.edu/lawcourts/pubs/newsletter/index.html

2007 - 2008 Officers

Chair:
Howard  Gillman
University of Southern California
Social Sciences
VKC 327
Los Angeles CA 90089-0044  
gillman@usc.edu

Chair-Elect:
Stefanie A. Lindquist
Vanderbilt University
Political Science
VU Station B #351817
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville TN 37235-1817
stefanie.lindquist@vanderbilt.edu

Secretary:
Wendy L. Martinek
SUNY, Binghamton
Political Science
PO Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
martinek@binghamton.edu

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

2008 Program Chair:
Stefanie A. Lindquist
Vanderbilt University
Political Science
VU Station B #351817
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville TN 37235-1817
stefanie.lindquist@vanderbilt.edu

Law and Politics Book Review:
Wayne McIntosh, University of Maryland, College Park

Law and Courts:
Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University

Law and Courts LISTSERV:
Nancy Maveety, Tulane University

Executive Committee:
Timothy Johnson, University of Minnesota
Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester
Kevin Quinn, Harvard University
Gerald Rosenberg, University Chicago

Awards

• Previous Award Recipients

Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award Committee of the Law and Courts Section is now taking nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors a distinguished career of scholarly achievement and service to the Law and Courts field.

Nominees must be political scientists who are at least 65 years of age or who have been active in the field for at least 25 years. Nominations from previous competitions will be carried forward to the current year's competition. The committee will retain nominations for 3 years, but one may re-nominate an individual and renew the materials in the file. Nominations may be made by any member of the Section and should consist of a statement outlining the contributions of the nominee and, if possible, the nominee's vitae.

A committee of five, appointed by the Section chair, selects the winner.  Please send nomination materials via email to Donald A. Downs,  (Wisconsin, Madison), Committee Chair, at dadowns@wisc.edu.  The Committee consists of Julie Novkov (SUNY Albany); James Stoner (LSU); Lee Epstein (Northwestern); and Scott Gerber (Ohio Northern). The deadline for nominations is January 1, 2008.

CQ Press Award
The CQ Press Award is given annually for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student. To be eligible the nominated paper must have been written by a full-time graduate student. Single- and co-authored papers are eligible. In the case of co-authored papers, each author must have been a full-time graduate student at the time the paper was written. Papers may have been written for any purpose (e.g., seminars, scholarly meetings, potential publication in scholarly journals). This is not a thesis or dissertation competition. Papers may be nominated by faculty members or by the students themselves. The papers must have been written during the twelve months previous to the nomination deadline. The award carries a cash prize of $200. To be considered for this year's competition, a copy of the nominated paper should be submitted to each member of the award committee by February 1, 2008 (e-mail attachments, in the form of .pdf files, are acceptable).

Award Committee Chair:
Kevin T. McGuire
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Political Science
CB #3265, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill NC 27599
kmcguire@unc.edu

Committee Members:
Justin Crowe, Pomona College
Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan

C. Herman Pritchett Award
The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year. Case books and edited books are not eligible. Books may be nominated by publishers or by members of the Section. The award carries a cash prize of $250. To be considered for this year's competition, a copy of the nominated book must be submitted to each member of the award committee by February 1, 2008.

Award Committee Chair:
Sanford  Levinson
University of Texas, Austin
School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin TX 78705
slevinson@law.utexas.edu

Committee Members:
Stephen Bragaw, Sweet Briar College
Thomas M. Keck, Syracuse University

American Judicature Society Award
The American Judicature Society Award is given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings of the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science Associations. Single- and co-authored papers, written by political scientists, are eligible. Papers may be nominated by any member of the Section. The award carries a cash prize of $100. To be considered for this year's competition, a copy of the nominated paper should be submitted to each member of the award committee by February 1, 2008.  (e-mail attachments, in the form of .pdf files, are acceptable). 

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

Committee Members:
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester
Patricia Woods, University of Florida

Wadsworth Publishing Award
The Wadsworth Publishing Award is given annually for a book or journal article, 10 years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts. Only books and articles written by political scientists are eligible; single-authored works produced by winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award are not eligible. The award carries a cash prize of $250. Any member of the Section may submit a nomination. The nomination should include a statement outlining the nature of the contribution of the nominated work. To be considered for this year's competition, nomination statements should be submitted to each member of the award committee by February 1, 2008.

Award Committee Chair:
Gary C. Jacobson
University of California, San Diego
Political Science
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA 92093-0521
gjacobson@ucsd.edu

Committee Members: 
James F. Spriggs II, Washington University, St Louis
Paul Frymer, University of California, San Diego

Houghton Mifflin Best Published Article Award 
The Houghton Mifflin Best Published Article Award recognizes the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year.   Articles published in all refereed journals and in law reviews are eligible, but book reviews, review essays, and chapters published in edited volumes are not eligible.  Journal editors and members of the section may nominate articles.  To be considered for this year's competition, a copy of the nominated paper should be submitted to each member of the award committee by February 1, 2008 (e-mail attachments, in the form of .pdf files, are acceptable).

Award Committee Chair:
James R. Rogers
Texas A & M University
Political Science
Mail Stop 4348
College Station TX 77843-4348
rogers@politics.tamu.edu

Committee Members:
Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota
J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University

Teaching and Mentoring Award
The Committee selects the winner of the Teaching and Mentoring Award, which recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. The Teaching and Mentoring Award recognizes innovation in instruction in law and courts. Examples of innovations that might be recognized by this award include (but are not limited to) outstanding textbooks, web sites, classroom exercises, syllabi, or other devices designed to enhance the transmission of knowledge about law and courts to undergraduate or graduate students. The Teaching and Mentoring Award is supported by a contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association. Any member of the section may make a nomination for the Teaching and Mentoring Award by submitting to each member of the award committee a statement identifying the nominee and outlining the nature of the nominee's innovation and the contribution it makes to achieving the purposes of the award by February 1, 2008 (e-mail attachments, in the form of .pdf files, are acceptable).   The Teaching and Mentoring Committee also advises the Organized Section on matters related to teaching and mentoring of students and colleagues.

Award Committee Chair
Lawrence  Baum
Ohio State University
Political Science
2140 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus OH 43210
baum.4@osu.edu

Committee Members
Thomas Burke, Wellesley College
Wendy Martinek, Binghamton University