Legal History Book Prizes: John Philip Reid Book Award and the Cromwell Book Prize
Nominations are sought for the John Phillip Reid Book Award of the American Society for Legal History and for the Cromwell Book Prize of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. The Reid Award and the Cromwell Book Prize are mutually exclusive. The Reid Award is for a book by a mid-career or senior scholar, and the Cromwell Book Prize is for a 'first book' by a junior scholar. For advice where the distinction is doubtful, please consult Philip Girard, chair of the ASLH Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award, and Daniel Ernst, Chair of the Cromwell Book Prize Advisory Subcommittee.
John Phillip Reid Book Award
Named for John Phillip Reid, the prolific legal historian and founding member of the Society, and made possible by the generous contributions of his friends and colleagues, the John Phillip Reid Book Award is an annual award for the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in any of the fields defined broadly as Anglo-American legal history. The award is given on the recommendation of the Society's John Phillip Reid Prize Committee.
For the 2012 prize, the Reid Award Committee will accept nominations from authors, presses, or anyone else, of any book that bears a copyright date in 2011. Nominations for the Reid Award should be submitted by 25 May 2012, by sending a curriculum vitae of the author and one copy of the book to each member of the committee:
Philip Girard, Chair
James Lewtas Visiting Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
Canada
M3J 1P3
Catharine Macmillan
Reader in Legal History
Department of Law
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Sophia Z. Lee
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3400 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Steven Wilf
Joel Barlow Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Law School
University of Connecticut
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, Connecticut 06105
Laura Weinrib
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago Law School
1111 E. 60th St., Room 410
Chicago, IL 60637
Cromwell Book Prize
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation awards annually a $5000 book prize for excellence in scholarship in the field of American Legal History by a junior scholar. The prize is designed to recognize and promote new work in the field by graduate students, law students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty not yet tenured. The work may be in any area of American legal history, including constitutional and comparative studies, but scholarship in the colonial and early national periods will receive some preference. The prize is limited to 'first books', i.e., works by a junior scholar that constitute his or her first major undertaking.
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation awards the prize on the recommendation of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee of the American Society for Legal History. The Committee will consider books published in 2011. The Society will announce the award after the annual meeting of the Cromwell Foundation, which normally takes place early in November.
To nominate a book, please send copies of it and the curriculum vitae of its author to John D, Gordan, III, Chair of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee, and to each member of the Cromwell Book Prize Advisory Subcommittee with a postmark no later than 31 May 2012.
John D. Gordan, III
Chair, Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee
1133 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10128
Daniel R. Ernst
Chair, Cromwell Book Prize Advisory Subcommittee
Visiting Professor of Law (2011-12)
411B Vanderbilt Hall
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Sq. South
New York, NY 10012
ernst@law.georgetown.edu
Laura F. Edwards
Professor of History
History Department
Box 90719
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Robert W. Gordon
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford CA 94305
Professor Laura Kalman
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410