Organized Section 2: Law and Courts Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Law and Courts Section Award Recipients
Law and Courts Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Formerly the CQ Press Award, the Best Graduate Student Paper Award is given annually for the best paper in the field of law and courts written by a graduate student. To be eligible, the nominated paper must have been written by a full-time graduate student. Both 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. Submitted papers may have been written for any purpose (including papers written for seminar, scholarly meetings, and for potential publication in academic journals). This is NOT, however, a dissertation or thesis prize.
| 2018 | Nancy B. Arrington, Emory University “Gender and Judicial Replacement: The Case of U.S. State Supreme Courts.” |
| 2017 | David Gelman, University of Rochester “The Beliefs and Behavior of Appellate Court Judges.” |
| 2017 | Doug Johnson, University of Rochester “The Beliefs and Behavior of Appellate Court Judges.” |
| 2017 | Natalie Rogol, Georgia State University “Going Public: Presidential Impact on Supreme Court Decision-Making.” |
| 2017 | Matthew Montgomery, Georgia State University “Going Public: Presidential Impact on Supreme Court Decision-Making.” |
| 2017 | Justin Kingsland, Georgia State University “Going Public: Presidential Impact on Supreme Court Decision-Making.” |
| 2016 | Thomas Gray, University of Virginia “Executive Influence on State Supreme Court Justices: Strategic Deference in Reappointment.” |
| 2015 | Monica E. Lineberger, University of South Carolina “United Kingdom, United Courts? The Hierarchical Impact of Precedent in the British Judiciary.” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association 2014. |
| 2015 | Ali S. Masood, University of South Carolina “United Kingdom, United Courts? The Hierarchical Impact of Precedent in the British Judiciary.” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association 2014. |
| 2014 | Alicia Uribe, Washington University in St. Louis “Binders Full of Judges: A Model for the Interdependency of Appointments to the U.S. Federal Judiciary.” |
| 2013 | Doug Rice, Pennsylvania State University “Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions through Probabilistic Topic Models” |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention Deborah Beim, Princeton University “Learning in the Judicial Hierarchy” |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention Blake Emerson, Yale University “The Empowerment of CriticismThe Freedmen’s Bureau, Howard University, and the Origins and Demise of Segregated Schooling in the South” |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention Patrick Luff, University of Oxford “Captured Legislators and Public-Interested Courts” |
| 2012 | Maya Sen, University of Rochester Is Justice Really Blind: Race and Appellate Review in U.S. Courts |
| 2012 | Honorable Mention Richard Price, Syracuse University Arguing Gunwall: Can a State Supreme Court Force Its Lawyers to Argue State Constitutional Claims? |
| 2011 | Doug Rice, Pennsylvania State University The Impact of Supreme Court Activity on the Judicial Agenda: Calling to Action or Settling the Law |
| 2010 | Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Berkeley “Bargaining in the Shadow of ‘Shadow Law” |
| 2009 | Jonathan Kastellec, Princeton University “Hierarchical and Collegial Politics on the U.S. Courts of Appeals” |
| 2008 | Tom Clark, Princeton University “The Separation of Powers, Court-Curbing and Judiical Legitimacy” |
| 2007 | Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Berkeley How Manufacturers Force Consumers to 'Holster' Consumer Warranty Protection Law 'Weapons' |
| 2007 | Douglas Kriner Hail to the Chief? Two Mechanisms of Congressional Influence over Presidential War-Making |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention Matthew Ingram, University of New Mexico “Judicial Efficiency in 17 Mexico States, 1993-2000” |
| 2004 | Chad Westerland, SUNY Stony Brook “Who Owns the Majority Opinion? Policy Making on the U. S. Supreme Court” |
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