Section on the Sociology of Law Awards Recipients

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Distinguished Book Award

YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2012 Katherine C.  Kellogg Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Sloan Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery
2011 Not given    
2010 co Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2009)
2010 co Kwai Hang Ng (University of California, San Diego), The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Post-Colonial Predicament in Hong Kong (Stanford University Press, 2009)
2009 Not given    
2008 Jonathon Simon   ­Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and  Created a Culture of Fear.
2007 Not given    
2006 Shai J. Lavi   The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States

2005

Not Given

   

2004

Susan Shapiro

American Bar Foundation Tangled Loyalties: Conflict of

Interest in the Legal Profession, University of Michigan Press

2003

Not given

   

2002

Not given

   

2001

Not given

   

2000

Robert Nelson and William Bridges

Northwestern University and University of Illinois, Chicago

Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in the United States

1999

Not given

   

1998

Bryant Garth and

Yves Dezalay

 

International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order

1997

Donald Black

Arthur Stinchcombe

University of Virginia

Northwestern University

The Epistemology of Pure Sociology

Lustration as a Problem of the Social Basis of Constitutionalism

1996

Ronen Shamir

Tel Aviv University

Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal

1995

Not given

   

1994

Donald Black

Jonathan Simon

Virginia Polytechnic

University of Miami

The Social Structure of Right and Wrong

Poor Discipline: Parole & the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990

 

Student Paper Prize

YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2012

Scott Leon  Washington

Princeton University

"Crossing the Line: A Quantitative History of Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the United States, 1662-2000."

2011

Not given

 

 

2010 co

Nicole Martorano Van Cleve

(Northwestern University),

“Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney”

2010 co

Kathryne M. Young

(Stanford University),

“Rights Consciousness and Criminal Procedure: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry”

2009

Lauren A. Rivera

Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University

Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market: Homophily in Job Interviews

2008

Not given

   

2007

Not given

   

2006

Elizabeth Sylvester

Carleton College

“A Study of Judicial Rhetoric on Wrongful Dismissal and Sexual harassment”

2005

Not given

   

2004

Not given

   

2003

Not given

   

2002

Not given

   

2001

Gary Gray

University of North Carolina

“A Socio-Legal Ethnography of the Right to Refuse Dangerous Work”

2000 (graduate)

Myrna Dawson and Ronit Donovitzer

University of Toronto

“ The Decision to Prosecute in Cases of Domestic Violence: Assessing the Role of Victim Cooperation”

2000

(undergraduate)

Jonathan Charles Dunten

University of California, Santa Barbara

“Avoiding Star Wars: Struggles Between National Sovereignty and International Cooperation in Outer Space Law”

1999 (undergraduate)

Michelle Manasse

Franklin and Marshall College

“The Organizational Process Leading to Successful Juvenile Corrections, 1986-1999”

1999 (graduate)

Annette Neirobisz

University of Toronto

“Wrongful Dismissal Litigation in an Era of Economies on Judicial Decisions”

1998

Stacy Burns

University of California-Los Angeles

“Think your Blackest Thoughts and Darken Them: Worst Light Depictions, Predictions and Evaluations in Judicial Mediation of Large Money Damage Disputes”

1997

Brian Gran

Megan Morgan

Northwestern University

Flinders University of South Australia

“A Bugaboo for Social Policy: The Influence of Legal Systems on Public Pension Development”

“Battered Woman Syndrome’: Women’s Experiences, Expert Evidence, and Legal Discourse”

1996

Scott Phillips

Louisiana State University

"The Institutionalization of Judicial Decision Making: A Temporal and Rhetorical Analysis of the Development of Hate Crime Laws"

 

 

Outstanding Article in the Sociology of Law Award

YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2011

Calvin Morrill,  Lauren Edelman, , Karolyn Tyson, , and Richard Arum University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina and New York University.  

2010

Not given
 
   

2009

Not given

   

2008

Not given

   

2007

Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness

 

“The Reconstitution of Law in Social

Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime,”

in Law and Society Review, Volume 39 (Number 4), 2005: 893-942.

2006

Not given

   

2005

Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey

Nicholas Pedriana and Robin Stryker

Becky Petit and Bruce Western (Honorable Mention)

Clark University

MIT

Louisiana State University   University of Minnesota         University of Washington Princeton University

“Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority,” American Journal of Sociology, vol 108: 1328-72, 2003

“The Strength of a Weak Agency: Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971.” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 110: 709-760, 2004

“Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course”Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration.” American Sociological Review, 2004, vol 69 (April: 151-169)

2004

Not given

   

2003

Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, and Terry K. Adams National Science Foundation

"Michigan's Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs Through Law School"

2002

Not given

   

2001

Mary Vogel

University of California, Santa Barbara

“The Social Origins of Plea Bargaining: Conflict and the Law in the Process of State Formation, 1830-1860”

2000

Not given

   

1999

Kitty Calavita

University of California, Irvine

“Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain”

1998

Not given

   

 

Graduate Student Essay Award

YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2011  Shauhin Talesh, University of California-Berkeley  

2010

Not given    

2009

Ryan D. King

University at Albany, SUNY

Conservatism, Institutionalism, and the Social Control of Intergroup Conflict

American Journal of Sociology 113(5) (March 2008) 1351-93

2008

Not given

   

2007

Leisy Abrego

University of California, Los Angeles

“Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the

Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in

California.”

2006

Mary Nell Trautner

University of Arizona

Liability v. Likeability: How Personal Injury Lawyers Screen Cases in an Era of Tort Reform”

2005

Gabrielle Ferrales

Northwestern University

"Domestic Violence Crime Control Policy and Practice: Implications for Arguments Concerning Penal Theory"

2004

Michael Sauder and Ryon Lancaster

Scott Leon Washington (Honorable Mention)

Northwestern University

Princeton University

"Law School Rankings and Admissions: The Effects of the Redefinition of a Status Hierarchy"

"The Killing Fields Revisited: Lynching and Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the Jim Crow South, 1882-1930."

2003

Not given

   

2002

Devah Pager

University of Wisconsin

“The Mark of a Criminal Record”

2001

Not given

   

2000

Not given

   

 

 

Undergraduate Student Essay Award

YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2011 Not given    

2010

Kathryn Green

(Brown University),

“Legal Pluralism and Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

2009

Hope Harvey

Carleton College

In Pursuit of Integration: Jefferson County, Kentucky

2008

Andre Bagoo

King’s College in

London

 

2007

Ashley DeMinck

Macalester College

“The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru.”

2006

Not given

   

2005

Roxanne Moreno

 

"Immutable Identities? Gender in the Asylum and Immigration Process"

2004

David Kovacs

Boston University

"Tough Choices: A Sociological Analysis of Prosecutorial Decisions in Antitrust Cases."

2003

Not given

   

2002

Yen P. Nguyen

University of California, Santa Barbara

“Creating Computer Crime Units”

2001

Not given

   

2000

Not given

   

 

Career Award

YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

2006

Red Schwartz

Brown University