2022
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Nikhil Kalyanpur
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Liberalism Outsourced: Why Oligarchs and Autocrats Fight in Foreign Courts
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Georgetown University
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2021
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Anthony DeMattee
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Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs
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Indiana University
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2020
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Tommaso Pavone
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The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe
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Princeton University
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2019
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Yasser Kureshi
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Judging the Generals: Judicial-Military Interactions in Authoritarian and Post-Authoritarian States
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Brandeis University
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2018
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Abigail Matthews
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Connected Courts: The Diffusion of Precedent Across State Supreme Courts
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University of Iowa
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2017
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Allison Harris
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Who's on the Bench?: Political Implications of Judicial Characteristics and Judicial Selection Methods in the U.S.
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University of Chicago
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2016
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Jud Mathews
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Constitutional Rights, Private Law, and Judicial Power
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Yale University
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2015
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Matthew Hitt
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Judgment-Rationale Inconsistency in the US Supreme Court
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Ohio State University
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2014
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Rachel Hinkle
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The Role of the United States Courts of Appeals in Legal Development
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Washington University, St. Louis
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2013
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Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos
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The Collapse of Impunity in Latin America: Legal Culture, Strategic Litigation and Judicial Behavior
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University of Notre Dame
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2012
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Lauren McCarthy
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Trafficking (In)justice: Law Enforcement’s Response to Human Trafficking in Russia
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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2011
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Emily Zackin
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Positive Constitutional Rights in the United States
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Princeton University
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2010
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Patrick Peel
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Building Judicial Capacity in the Early American State: Legal Populism, County Courts, and Credit, 1645-1860
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Johns Hopkins University
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2009
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Mark Massoud
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Who Rules the Law? How Government, Aid Agencies, and Civil Society Manipulate Law in Sudan
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University of California, Berkeley
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2008
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Diana Kapiszewsk
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Challenging Decisions: High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil
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University of California, Berkeley
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2007
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Maria Dimitrova Popova
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Judicial Independence and Political Competition: Electoral and Defamation Disputes in Russia and Ukraine
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Harvard University
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2006
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Justin J. Wert
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The Not-So-Great Writ: Habeas Corpus and American Political Development
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University of Oklahoma
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2005
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Lori A. Johnson
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Who Governs the Guardians? The Politics of Policymaking for Federal Courts
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Mercer University
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2005
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Martin J. Sweet
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Supreme Policymaking: Coping with the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Policies
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Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
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2004
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Tamir Moustafa
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Law Versus the State: The Expansion of Constitutional Power in Egypt, 1980-2001
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University of Washington
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2003
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Jeffrey Kaplan Staton
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Judicial Activism and Public Authority Compliance: The Role of Public Support in the Mexican Separation-Of-Powers System
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Washington University
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2002
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Nancy Scherer
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Making a Point: The Politicization of Lower Federal Court Appointments in the Modern Political Era
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University of Chicago
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2001
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Michael Ebeid
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Influencing the Supreme Court: Democratic Accountability and the Presidential Threat to Judicial Independence
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Yale University
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2000
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Kenneth I. Kersch
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Frames of Progress: The Political Imagination of Rights and Liberties in the United States Supreme Court
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Cornell University
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1999
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Kathleen Ann Uradnik
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Government by Consent Decree: San Francisco's Struggle for Institutional Reform
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University of California
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1998
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Christopher J. Zorn
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U.S. Government Litigation Strategies in the Federal Appellate Courts
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Ohio State University
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1997
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Thomas F. Burke
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Litigation and its Discontents: The Politics of Adversarial Legalism
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University of California, Berkeley
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1996
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Charles R. Epp
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Constitutional Courts and the Rights Agenda in Comparative Perspective
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University of Wisconsin
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1995
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Cary Coglianese
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Challenging the Rules, Litigation and Bargaining in the Administrative Process
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University of Michigan
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1995
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James F. Spriggs, II
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The Impact of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Federal Administrative Agencies, 1954-1990
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Washington University
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1994
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Deena Rabinowicz Dugan
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The Politics of Medical Malpractice Reform in the American States
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Johns Hopkins University
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1994
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Susan Brodie Haire
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Judges' Decisions in the United States Courts of Appeals: A Reassessment of Geographical Patterns in Judicial Behavior
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University of South Carolina
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1993
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Andrew Koppelman
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The Antidiscrimination Project: Foundations, Scope, Limits
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Yale University
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1992
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No award given
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1991
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Terri Jennings Peretti
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The Responsible Exercise of Judicial Power: In Defense of a Political Court
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University of California, Berkeley
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1990
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James W. Tubbs
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Roman Law Mind, Common Law Mind
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Johns Hopkins University
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1989
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Mark Graber
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The Transformation of the Modern Constitutional Defense of Free Speech
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Yale University
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1988
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Graham Walker
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The Deep Structure of Contemporary Constitutional Controversy: Morality, Skepticism and Augustine
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University of Notre Dame
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1987
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H. W. Perry, Jr.
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Deciding to Decide: The Agenda-Setting Process in the United States Supreme Court
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University of Michigan
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1986
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Susan E. Lawrence
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The Poor in Court: The Legal Impact of Expanded Access
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Johns Hopkins University
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1985
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Kim Lane Scheppele
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Legal Secrets: Common-Law Rules and the Social Distribution of Knowledge
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University of Chicago
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1984
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Donald A. Downs
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Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment: The Skokie Case and the Limits of Speech
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University of California, Berkeley
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1983
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Mark Silverstein
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Liberalism, Democracy, and the Court: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, and Constitutional Decision-Making
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Cornell University
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1982
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Timothy O'Neill
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The Politics of Equality: Litigational Politics and Democratic Theory
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University of California, Berkeley
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1981
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Stanley Charles Brubaker
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Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: An Intellectual Biography
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University of Virginia
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1980
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Calvin Jillson
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Compromise and Critical Realignment in the American Constitutional Convention of 1787
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University of Maryland
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1979
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Harry N. Hirsch
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The Uses of Psychology in Judicial Biography: Felix Frankfurter and the Ambiguities of Self-Image
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Princeton University
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1979
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Irving Frederick Lefberg
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Analyzing Judicial Change: The Uses of 'Systematic Biography' in Anticipating the Court and Shaping Its Future Policies
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1978
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Philip Leon Dubois
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Judicial Elections in the States: Patterns and Consequences
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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1977
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Milton Heumann
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Adapting to Plea Bargaining: The Experience of Prosecutors, Judges and Defense Attorneys
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Yale University
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1976
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Thomas Uhlman
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Racial Justice: Black Judges and Defendants in the Metro City Criminal Court, 1968-1974
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University of North Carolina
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1975
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No award given
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1974
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James E. Radcliffe
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The Case-or-Controversy Provision -- How Limited Is the Political Role of the Federal Courts?
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Pennsylvania State University
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1973
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Lief Hastings Carter
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The Limits of Order: Uncertainty and Adaptation in a District Attorney's Office
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University of California
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1972
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Walter G. Markham
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Offenders in the Federal Courts: A Search for the Social Correlates of Justices
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University of Pennsylvania
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1971
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Douglas E. Rosenthal
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Client Participation in Professional Decision: The Lawyer-Client Relationship in Personal Injury Claims
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Yale University
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1970
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No award given
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1969
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James P. Levine
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The Bookseller and the Law of Obscenity: Toward an Empirical Theory of Free Expression
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Northwestern University
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1968
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No award given
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1967
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Richard Richardson
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A Study of the Judicial Process in Three U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1956-1961
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Tulane University
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1966
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William K. Muir, Jr.
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Law and Attitude Change
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Yale University
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1965
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John D. Sprague
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Voting Patterns on the United States Supreme Court: Cases in Federalism, 1889-1959
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Washington University
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1964
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David F. Hughes
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Salmon P. Chase: Chief Justice
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Centre College of Kentucky
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