2006         Winner —
                   Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent
                   by Ian Ayres and Gregory Klass

 2005         Winner —
                  Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime
                  by Geoffrey R. Stone

2004          Winner —
                  The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment,
                  by Ronald M. Labbι and Jonathan Lurie

2003         Winner —
American Law in the 20th Century, by Lawrence M. Friedman

Finalists —
Women in the Barracks:  The VMI Case and Equal Rights,
by Philippa Strum

In the Devil’s Snare:  The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692,
by Mary Beth Norton

2002         Winner —   
Fredrick L. McGhee:  A Life on the Color Line 1861-1912,
by Paul D. Nelson

2001         Winner —  
Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses:  Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution, by Shawn Francis Peters

2000         Co-Winners —
Framing American Divorce, by Norma Basch

Black’s Law Dictionary (7th ed.), by Bryan Garner, Editor in Chief

1999         Winner —   
Cardozo, by Andrew L. Kaufman

Finalists —
The Bill of Rights, by Akhil Reed Amar

Changing Your Mind: The Law of Regretted Decisions,
by E. Allan Farnsworth

 1998        Winner —   
Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn: Searching for an American Jurisprudence, by N.E.H. Hull

Finalists —  
Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920,
by David M. Rabban

Most Humble Servants, by Stewart Jay

      1997         Winner —  
Worse than Slavery, Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, by David M. Oshinsky

1996         Winner —  
A Civil Action, by Jonathon Harr

1995         Winner —
Hugo Black: A Biography, by Roger Newman

Finalist —
Child Witnesses: Fragile Voices in the American Legal System,
by Lucy S. McGough

1994         Winner —
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self,
by G. Edward White

Finalist —
Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations,
by Fred R. Shapiro

1993         Winner —
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers:  The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall, by Carl T. Rowan

Finalist —
The Constitution in Conflict, by Robert A. Burt

1992         Winner —
The Fourth Estate and the Constitution, by Lucas A. Scot Powe, Jr.

Finalist —
William Wayne Justice:  A Judicial Biography,
by Frank R. Kemerer

1991         Winner —
The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule, by Douglas Laycock

Finalist —
Cardozo:  A Study in Reputation and the Problems of Jurisprudence, by Richard A. Posner

1990         Winner —
Honorable Justice:  The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
by Sheldon M. Novick

Finalists —
The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law,
by M. Ethan Katsh

Battle for Justice:  How the Bork Nomination Shook America,
by Ethan Bronner (Cover Image Unavailable)

1989         Winner —
Constitutional Faith, by Sanford Levinson

1988         Winner —
Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, by Mary Ann Glendon

Finalists —
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, by Bryan A. Garner

Natural Law and Justice, by Lloyd L. Weinreb

1987         Winner —
Art Law:  Rights and Liabilities of Creators and Collectors,
by Franklin Feldman, Stephen Weil, and Susan Duke Biederman
(Cover Image Unavailable)

Finalists —
The Fundamentals of Legal Drafting, by F. Reed Dickerson
 
The Supreme Court and the American Family:  Ideology and Issues, by Eva R. Rubin

1986         Winner —
The Federal Courts:  Crisis and Reform, by Richard A. Posner
(Cover Image Unavailable)

Finalists —
Takings:  Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain,
by Richard Epstein
 
Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity, by Peter H. Schuck and Rogers M. Smith (Cover Image Unavailable)

1985         Winner —
When Words Lose Their Meaning:  Constitution and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community,
by James Boyd White

1984         Winner —
Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition, by Harold J. Berman 

1983         Winner —
When Government Speaks:  Law, Politics, and Government Expression in America, by Mark C. Yudof (Cover Image Unavailable)

1982         Winner —
Women in Law, by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

 1981         Winner —
Independent Journey:  The Life of W. O. Douglas,
by James F. Simon (Cover Image Unavailable)

1980         Winner —
The Grammatical Lawyer, by Morton S. Freeman
(Cover Image Unavailable)

1979         Winner —
Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution, by Gerald T. Dunne

1978         Winner —
American Constitutional Law, by Laurence H. Tribe

1977         Winner —
Changing Law:  A Biography of Arthur T. Vanderbilt,
by Arthur T. Vanderbilt (Cover Image Unavailable)                   

1976         Winner —
Simple Justice, by Richard Kluger

1975         Winner —
Appellate Judicial Opinions, by Robert A. Leflar
(Cover Image Unavailable) (This link is to a search engine
for used and out-of-print books at barnesandnoble.com.)

1974         Winner —
A History of American Law, by Lawrence M. Friedman
(This link is to a search engine for used and out-of-print
books at barnesandnoble.com.)

 1973         Winner —
A Question of Judgment:  The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court, by Robert Shogan (Cover Image Unavailable)
(This link is to a search engine for used and out-of-print books at barnesandnoble.com.)

1972         Winner —
The Defense Never Rests, by F. Lee Bailey

1971         [No Award Given]

1970         Winner —
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 1789–1969,
Their Lives and Major Opinions (4 vols.), by Leon Friedman
and Fred L. Israel (Cover Image Unavailable)

1969         Winner —
On Law and Justice, by Paul Freund (Cover Image Unavailable)

1968         Winner —
The Lawyers, by Martin Mayer (Cover Image Unavailable)

1967         Winner —
The Jury Returns, by Louis Nizer

1966         [No Award Given]

1965         Winner —
Strangers on a Bridge:  The Case of Colonel Abel,
by James T. Donovan (Cover Image Unavailable)
(This link is to a search engine for used and out-of-print
books at barnesandnoble.com.)

1964         Winner —
The Language of the Law, by David Mellinkoff
(Cover Image Unavailable)

1963         Winner —
A Bill Becomes a Law:  Congress Enacts Civil Rights Legislation,
by Daniel M. Berman (Cover Image Unavailable)

1962         Winner —
Death and the Supreme Court, by E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
(Cover Image Unavailable)

1961         Co-Winners —
Felix Frankfurter: Scholar on the Bench, by Helen Shirley Thomas
(Cover Image Unavailable) (This link is to a search engine for used and out-of-print books at barnesandnoble.com.)
 
The People and the Court:  Judicial Review in a Democracy,
by Charles Lund Black (Cover Image Unavailable)
 

Scribes Law-Review Award

Overview

      Since 1987, Scribes has presented an annual award for the best student-written article in a law review or journal. The Scribes Law-Review Award is presented at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Law Reviews.

Recipients  

2007         Kevin Trowel, Divided by Design: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District,
                 Intelligent Design, and Civic Education, 93 GEORGETOWN L.J. 855 (2007).       

2006          Amanda L. Morgan, U.S. Officials’ Vulnerability to "Global Justice": Will 
                  Universal Jurisdiction over War Crimes Make Traveling for Pleasure Less
                  Pleasurable?, 57 HASTINGS L.J. 423 (2005).

2005          Jeremiah Kelman, Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail at the Boundaries of Common
                  Law Property Rights,78 S. CAL. L. REV. 363 (2004). 

2004          Catherine Carroll, Section Five Overbreadth: The Facial Approach 
                  to Adjudicating Challenges Under Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment,
                  101 U. MICH. L. REV. 1026 (2003).

2003         Janet Dean Gertz, The Purloined Personality: Consumer
Profiling in Financial Services, 39 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 943
(2002) (link to abstract at the law review's website).

2002         Michael E. Horwin, War on Cancer:  Why Does the FDA Deny
Access to Alternative Cancer Treatments?, 38 Cal. W. L. Rev.
189 (2001). 

2001         John Cocchi Day, Retelling the Story of Affirmative Action: Reflections on a Decade of Federal Jurisprudence in the Public Workplace, 89 Cal. L. Rev. 61 (2001). 

2000         Stephan J. Schlegelmilch, Ghost of the Holocaust: Holocaust Victim Fine Arts Litigation, 38 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 87 (1999). 

      1999         Michael J. Mazza, Should Clergy Hold the Priest-Penitent Privilege, 82,  
                       MARQUETTE L. REV.171 (1998).

      1998         Mary M. Sheridan, In Re Fauziya Kasinga: The United States has Opened  
                       Its Doors To Victims of Female Genital Mutilation?, 71 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 433 (1997).

      1997        Peter Blumberg, From 'Publish to Perish': Revenues from University Technology 
                      Transfer, 141 UNIV. PENN. L. REV. 89 (1996).

      1996        Igor Kirman, Standing Apart to be a Part: The Precedential Value of Supreme                          Court Concurring Opinions, 95 COLUMBIA L. REV. 2038 (1995).

      1995        Edith L. Pacillo, Getting a Feminist Foot in the Courtroom Door:  Media Liability
                      for Personal Injury Caused by Pornography, 28 SUFFOLK UNIV. L. REV. 123 (1994).
                     

      1994        Dierdre Smith, Confronting Silence:  The Constitution, Deaf Criminal Defendants,
                      and the Right to Interpretation During Trial 46 MAINE L. REV. 87 (1994).

        1993        Matthew Pawa, When the Supreme Court Restricts Constitutional Rights, Can
                      Congress Save Us? An Examination of Section 5 of the Fourteenth                                        Amendent 141 UNIV. PENN. L. REV. 1029 (1993).

     1992         Brendan Lineham Shannon, The Federal Magistrates Act: A New Article III 
                     Analysis for a New Breed of Judicial Officer, 33 WILLIAM & MARY L. REV. (1991).

     1991        Allison Hartwell Eid, Private Party Immunities to Section 1983 Suits, 57 UNIV.
                     CHICAGO L. REV. 1323 (1990).

       1990        Beverly Ray Burlingame, Commercialization in Fetal-Tissue Transplantation: 
                     Steering Medical Progress to Ethical Cures, 68 TEX. L. REV. 213 (1989).

     1989        David J. Gerber, Rethinking the Monopolist's Duty to Deal: A Legal and Economic
                     Critique of the Doctrine of 'Essential Facilities', 74 VIRGINIA L. REV. 1069 (1988).

      1988        Donald M. Levy, Jr. & Debra Duncan, Judicial Review of Administrative 
                    Rulemaking and Enforcement Discretion: The Effect of a Presumption of 
                    Unreviewability, 55 GEORGE WASHINGTON L. REV. 596 (1987).

     1987       Paul R. Q Wolfson, Is a Presidential Item Veto Constitutional?, 96 YALE L. J. 838 (1987)

Scribes Brief-Writing Award

    2007          Winner —

                       David Pratt
                       Texas Wesleyan University School of Law

                       Second place:
                       Timothy Davis, Marci Palmieri & Tiffancy Tahr
                       Northern Kentucky University,
                           Salmon P. Chase College of Law

                       Third place (tie):
                       Vlad Kroll, Miranda Lindl, Nema Milaninia, Marja-Lissa Overbeck & Benjamin Wiles
                       University of California,
                           Hastings College of Law

                       Tiffany Herrera, Christopher J. Kronzer, Erin N. Kupcunas,
                       Joshua A. Reiss & Leah A. Rush
                          South Texas College of Law

    2006          Winner ——

                       Heather Harris and Erica Thonsgard,
                       University of Houston Law Center

    2005          Winner —

                        Juliet Bikbova, Sara Boyd, Linda Burns & Shama Patari,
                        John Marshall Law School

    2004          Winner —

                        Dace Caldwell, Scott Henderson & Jennifer Miller,
                        University of Oklahoma College of Law

    2003          Winner —

                        Stephanie Rahlfe and David Uyar,
                        University of San Diego School of Law

    2002          Winner —

                        Karl S. Myers and Michael E. Schechterly,
                        Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University

    2001          Winner —

                        Robert W. Cowan, Ann E. Johnson, and Mark A. Junell,
                        South Texas College of Law

    2000          Winner —

                        Karlene Dunn, D. Matthew Freeman, and Vivica N. Simmons,
                        South Texas College of Law

    1999          Winner —

                        Juan Alcala, Erika Laremont, and Emily Stephens,
                        University of Texas

    1998          Winner —

                        Alicia Brumback, Darrel Oman, and Brandy Sargent,
                        Chicago Kent

    1997          Winner —

                        Rene Kahn, Michael Gray, and Allyson Gipson,
                        Southwestern University

    1996          Winner —

                        Christopher Blum, Joy Goldberg and James Moschella,
                        Brooklyn Law School

    1993          Winner —

                        E. Joshua Rosenkranz and Howard Pincus,
                        Office of the Public Defender, New York