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Call for Submissions: “Cromwell Book Prize,” American Society for Legal History
June 1, 2020
CROMWELL BOOK PRIZE
CRITERIA
Excellence in scholarship in the field of American legal history by an early career scholar.
AMOUNT
$5,000
DEADLINE
June 1, 2020
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize is awarded annually to the best book in the field of American legal history by an early career scholar. The prize is designed to recognize and promote new work in the field by graduate students, law students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty not yet tenured. The work may be in any area of American legal history, including constitutional and comparative studies, but scholarship in the colonial and early national periods will receive some preference. The prize is limited to a first book, wholly or primarily written while the author was untenured. Submission of a book by an author who has previously been awarded a Cromwell Foundation Prize for a dissertation or article must be accompanied by a showing that the book enhances, or differs in subject from, the previous work.
The author of the winning book receives a prize of $5,000. The Foundation awards the prize after a review of the recommendation of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee of the American Society for Legal History. The Committee shall consider a book in the year of its copyright date or of its actual publication. However, no book shall be considered for the prize more than once.
To nominate a book, please send copies of it and the curriculum vitae of its author to John D. Gordan, III, Chair of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee, and to each member of the Cromwell Book Prize Advisory Committee with a postmark no later than June 1, 2020.
Committee Members
John D. Gordan, III
Secretary of the Cromwell Foundation
1133 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10128
Catherine Fisk (chair)
6069 Buena Vista Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
Susanna L. Blumenthal
100 3rd Ave. So. #1605
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Daniel Hulsebosch
147 Central Ave.
Greenport, NY 11944
Serena Mayeri
31 West Rock Trail
Stamford, CT 06902