The first annual Preyer
Scholars were Sophia Z. Lee, a JD/PhD student at Yale, for her paper, “Hotspots
in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Labor Constitutionalism, 1948-1964” and Karen
M. Tani, a JD/PhD student at the University for Pennsylvania for her paper, “Fleming
v. Nestor: Anticommunism, The Welfare State and the Making of ‘New
Property.’”
William Nelson Cromwell
Fellowships were awarded to: Christopher Beauchamp, Ph.D., University of
Cambridge, for postdoctoral research to convert his dissertation on patent
litigation in the late nineteenth century into a book; Kenneth W. Mack, J.D.
Harvard Law School; Ph. D. Princeton University and member of the Harvard Law
School faculty for archival research to complete his book on African American
lawyers and their legal practice during the first half of the twentieth century;
Kunal Parker, J.D. Harvard Law School, Ph.D. Princeton University (candidate),
member of the Cleveland State Law School faculty and Golieb Fellow, NYU Law
School to complete his dissertation on changing understandings of history and of
custom in nineteenth century legal thought; Nicholas Parrillo, J.D./ Ph.D
(candidate), Yale Law School and Golieb Fellow, NYU Law School to continue his
doctoral dissertation research on the legal history of governmental salaries and
pay; Daniel J. Sharfstein, J.D. Yale Law School and Golieb Fellow, NYU Law
School for archival research on his book on families whose racial identities
shifted from African American to white from the eighteenth to the twentieth
centuries.
For the first time in the
history of these awards the Sutherland Prize and the Surrency Prize were awarded
to the same person for the same article: Dr Andrea McKenzie (Assistant Professor
of History, University of Victoria, Canada), for ‘ “This Death Some Strong and
Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose”: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England’, Law & History Review, 23, 2
(2005).
The William Nelson Cromwell Prize was awarded to Professor Holly
Brewer of North Carolina State University for her book, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American
Revolution in Authority (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
The first annual John Phillip Reid Prize
was awarded to Professor Daniel J. Hulsebosch, of the New York University School
of Law, for his book Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of
Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830.
Professor Anne Lefebvre-Teillard
of the University of Paris (II, Panthéon-Assas) was elected a corresponding
fellow of the Society.
Professor Morton J. Horwitz of
the Harvard Law School was elected an honorary fellow of the Society.
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