The Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society

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2018     Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century by Tera W. Hunter
2017     Vagrant nation : police power, constitutional change, and the making of the 1960s by Risa Goluboff
2016     Border law : the first Seminole War and American nationhood by Deborah Rosen
2015     Robert Love's warnings : searching for strangers in Colonial Boston by Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger
2014     The sympathetic state : disaster relief and the origins of the American welfare state by Michele Landis Dauber
2013     Lincoln's code : the laws of war in American history by John Fabian Witt
2012     Reasoning from race : feminism, law, and the civil rights revolution by Serena Mayeri
2011     Ratification : the people debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 by Pauline Maier
2010     Working knowledge : employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800–1930 by Catherine L. Fisk; Settler sovereignty : jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788–1836 by Lisa Ford
2009     The people and their peace : legal culture and the transformation of inequality in the post-revolutionary South by Laura F. Edwards
2008     The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776–1941 by Rebecca M. McLennan
2007     Architect of justice : Felix S. Cohen and the founding of American legal pluralism by Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
2006     Constituting empire : New York and the transformation of constitutionalism in the Atlantic world, 1664–1830 by Daniel J. Hulsebosch
2005     The transatlantic constitution : colonial legal culture and the empire by Mary Sarah Bilder
2004     Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America by Mae M. Ngai
2003     Republic of debtors : bankruptcy in the age of American independence by Bruce H. Mann
2002     Recasting American liberty : gender, race, law, and the railroad revolution, 1865–1920 by Barbara Young Welke
2001     Crimes against nature : squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation by Karl Jacoby
2000     The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post–World War II South by Gail Williams O'Brien
1999     No constitutional right to be ladies : women and the obligations of citizenship by Linda K. Kerber
1998     Rethinking the New Deal court : the structure of a constitutional revolution by Barry Cushman
1997     The people's welfare : law and regulation in nineteenth-century America by William J. Novak
1996     Lawyers against labor : from individual rights to corporate liberalism by Daniel R. Ernst
1995     Regulating a new society : public policy and social change in America 1900–1933 by Morton Keller
1994     Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes : law and the inner self by G. Edward White
1993     Law, labor, and ideology in the early American republic by Christopher L. Tomlins
1992     Enterprise and American law, 1836–1937 by Herbert Hovenkamp
1991     Abe Fortas : a biography by Laura Kalman
1990     The transformation of criminal justice, Philadelphia, 1800–1880 by Allen Steinberg
1989     The Fourteenth Amendment : from political rhetoric to judicial doctrine by William E. Nelson
1988     The fisherman's problem : ecology and the law in California fisheries, 1850–1980 by Arthur F. McEvoy
1987     The NAACP's legal strategy against segregated education, 1925–1950 by Mark Tushnet
1986     Governing the hearth : law and family in nineteenth-century America by Michael Grossberg
1985     Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story : statesman of the Old Republic by R. Kent Newmyer
1966     The legal papers of John Adams, edited by L. Kinpin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel