2024
Geoffrey R. Kirsch
“Opening New Channels: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Law of Commerce”
Ph.D., English, Harvard University
Awards
Law, Culture, and the Humanities awards annual prizes to outstanding dissertations and conference presentations, and recognizes significant scholarly achievement in the field.
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Julien Mezey Dissertation Award
The Julien Mezey Dissertation Award is an annual prize awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.
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Featured Winner(s)
Austin Sarat Award
The Austin Sarat Award is a prize offered to a graduate or professional student for an outstanding paper presented at the LCH annual conference.
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Featured Winner(s)
2024
Eva Vaillancourt
“The Birth of the British Crosswalk: Mystical Lines, Mechanical Obedience, and the Puzzle of Law-as-Infrastructure”
Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley
James Boyd White Award
With this award we recognize and honor the originality and excellence of individual contributions to the field, and acknowledge our indebtedness to these individuals for their commitment to the interdisciplinary study of law, culture and the humanities.
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Featured Winner(s)
2024
Hendrik Hartog
Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus; Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
