Law and Courts Section Award Recipients

Law and Courts Best Journal Article Award
This award recognizes the best journal article in the field of 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. (This award was previously known as McGraw Hill Award and as the Houghton-Mifflin Award for the Best Journal Article in the Field of Law and Courts).

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2017	Ryan Black, Michigan State University “Courting the President: How Circuit Court Judges Alter Their Behavior for Promotion to the Supreme Court.” The American Journal of Political Science
2017	Ryan Owens, University of Wisconsin “Courting the President: How Circuit Court Judges Alter Their Behavior for Promotion to the Supreme Court.” The American Journal of Political Science
2017	Honorable Mention Jay Krehbiel, Washington University in St. Louis “The Politics of Judicial Procedures: The Role of Public Oral Hearings in the German Constitutional Court.” The American Journal of Political Science
2017	Honorable Mention Charles Cameron, Princeton University “Are Supreme Court Nominations a Move-the-Median Game?” The American Political Science Review
2017	Honorable Mention Jonathan Kastellec, Princeton University “Are Supreme Court Nominations a Move-the-Median Game?” The American Political Science Review
2017	Honorable Mention Deborah Beim, Yale University “Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy” An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review.” The American Journal of Political Science
2017	Honorable Mention Alexander Hirsch, California Institute of Technology “Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy” An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review.” The American Journal of Political Science
2017	Honorable Mention Jonathan Kastellec, Princeton University “Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy” An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review.” The American Journal of Political Science
2016	Rachael Hinkle, University at Buffalo “Legal Constraint in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” Journal of Politics 77(3): 721-735
2015	Terence K. Teo, Brown University “Law, Focal Points, and Fiscal Discipline in the United States and the European Union.” American Political Science Review
2015	R. Daniel Keleman, Rutgers University “Law, Focal Points, and Fiscal Discipline in the United States and the European Union.” American Political Science Review
2015	David M. Glick, Boston University “Chief Justice Roberts’s Health Care Decision Disrobed: The Microfoundations of the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy,” American Journal of Political Science
2015	Dino P. Christenson, Boston University “Chief Justice Roberts’s Health Care Decision Disrobed: The Microfoundations of the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy,” American Journal of Political Science
2014	Veronica Michel, John Jay College-CUNY “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America.” 47 Law and Society Review 873 (2013)
2014	Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard University “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America.” 47 Law and Society Review 873 (2013
2014	Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University “Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and Popular Legal Consciousness in Malaysia.” 38 Law and Social Inquiry 168 (2013)
2013	Benjamin Lauderdale, London School of Economics The Supreme Court’s Many Median Justices (American Political Science Review, volume 106, number 4 November 2012)
2013	Tom Clark, Emory University The Supreme Court’s Many Median Justices (American Political Science Review, volume 106, number 4 November 2012)
2012	Pamela Corley, Southern Methodist University Lower Court Influence on U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Content (January 2011 issue of The Journal of Politics)
2012	Paul Collins Jr., University of North Texas Lower Court Influence on U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Content (January 2011 issue of The Journal of Politics)
2012	Bryan Calvin, Tarrant County College Lower Court Influence on U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Content (January 2011 issue of The Journal of Politics)
2011	Tom Clark, Emory University “Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space”
2011	Benjamin Lauderdale, Harvard University “Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space”
2010	Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins University “Transformative Bureaucracy: Reagan’s Lawyers and the Dynamics of Political Investment”
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