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ASA Sociology of Law Section Awards
Every year, the section awards prizes for best book, best article, best graduate student paper, and best undergraduate student paper. In alternate years in conjunction with the Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance, the section awards the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award, for exceptional mentoring support for junior faculty. Below is a list of all such awardees since 2002.
- Distinguished Book Award
- Best Article Award
- Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award
- Outstanding graduate student paper
- Best undergraduate student paper
Distinguished Book Award
2012: Katherine C. Kellogg, Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
2010: Co-winners:
- Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Kwai Hang Ng, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong. Stanford University Press, 2009.
2008: Jonathon Simon, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Honorable Mention: Doris Marie Provine, Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
2006: Shai Lavi, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States. Princeton University Press, 2005.
2004: Co-winners:
- Susan Shapiro, Tangled Loyalties: Conflict of Interest in Legal Practice. University of Michigan Press, 2002.
- David T. Johnson, The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan. Oxford Press, 2002.
2002: John Braithwaite and Peter Drahos, Global Business Regulation. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Honorable Mention: Robert Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law. Harvard University Press, 2001.
Best Article Award
2011: Calvin Morrill, Lauren B. Edelman, Karolyn Tyson, and Richard Arum. 2010. "Legal Mobilization in Schools: The Paradox of Rights and Race Among Youth." Law & Society Review 44:651-693.
- Honorable mention: Osagie K. Obasogie. 2010. "Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations." Law & Society Review 44:585-616.
2009: Ryan King. 2008. "Conservatism, Institutionalism, and the Social Control of Intergroup Conflict." American Journal of Sociology 113:1351-1393.
2007: Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness. 2005. "The Reconstitution of Law in Social Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime." Law & Society Review 39:893-942.
2005: Co-winners:
- Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey. 2003. "Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority." American Journal of Sociology 108:1328-72.
- Nicholas Pedriana and Robin Stryker. "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 110:709-760.
- Honorable Mention: Becky Pettit and Bruce Western. 2004. "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration." American Sociological Review 69:151-169.
2003: Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, and Terry K. Adams. 2000. "Michigan’s Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs Through Law School." Law & Social Inquiry 25:395-505.
Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award
2012: John Hagan, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University
Outstanding graduate student paper
2012: Scott Leon Washington, Princeton University. "Crossing the Line: A Quantitative History of Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the United States, 1662-2000."
2011: Shauhin Talesh, UC-Berkeley. "How Organizations Shape the Meaning of the Law: A Comparative Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws."
- Honorable Mention: Andras Tilcsik. "Pride and Prejudice: Employment Discrimination against Openly Gay Men in the United States."
2010: Co winners:
- Nicole Martorano Van Cleve, Northwestern University. "Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Mutliple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney"
- Kathryne M. Young, Stanford University. "Rights Consciousness and Criminal Procedure: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry."
2009: Lauren Rivera, Harvard University. "Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market: Homophily in Job Interviews."
2008: Shauhin Talesh, UC-Berkeley. "The Legislature, ‘Lemons,’ Legal Endogeneity: How Manufacturers Force Consumers to ‘Holster’ Consumer Warranty Protection Law ‘Weapons’."
2007: Leisy Abrego, UCLA. "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 of Northwestern University. "Domestic Violence Crime Control Policy and Practice: Implications for Arguments Concerning Penal Theory."
- Honorable Mention: Emily Ryo, Stanford University. "Through the Back Door: Illegal Chinese Border Crossings during the Chinese Exclusion Era, 1882-1943."
- Honorable Mention: Sandra Levitsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "To Lead with Law: Reassessing the Influence of Legal Advocacy Organizations in Social Movements."
2004: Michael Sauder and Ryon Lancaster, Northwestern University. "Law School Rankings and Admissions: The Effects of the Redefinition of a Status Hierarchy."
- Honorable Mention: Scott Leon Washington, Princeton University. "The Killing Fields Revisited: Lynching and Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the Jim Crow South, 1882-1930."
2002: Devah Pager, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The Mark of a Criminal Record."
Outstanding undergraduate student paper
2012: Cathy Wang, UC-Berkeley. "The Effect of Work-Family Policy Design and Culture on Women’s Employment Outcomes and Men’s User Rates."
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."
- Honorable Mention: Shantee L. Rosado, Macalester College. "El Que no Tiene Dinga, Tiene Mandinga: Black Collective Identity Formation among Afro-descendants in Latin America."
2008: Andre Bagoo, King’s College. "The Law Of Albion: Arendt, Rights-Talk and Critical Race Theory." • Honorable Mention: Claire Posner, Macalester College. "Choosing Truth."
2007: Ashley DeMinck, Macalester College. "The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru."
2006: Elizabeth Sylvester, Carleton College. "A Study of Judicial Rhetoric on Wrongful Dismissal and Sexual Harassment."
2005: Roxanne Moreno, Carleton College. "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."
2002: Yen P. Nguyen, UC-Santa Barbara. "Creating Computer Crimes Units to Take a Byte Out of Computer Crime."