Lifetime Achievement Award
Established in 2003
to honor living
senior comparatists whose
writings have changed the shape or direction of American comparative or
private international law.
It is a "non-monetary recognition of lifetime extraordinary scholarly
contributions to comparative law in the United States."
Award
Winners
2004 -- John Henry Merryman:
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer & Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law
Emeritus and Affiliated Professor of Art Emeritus, Stanford University.
Eric Stein: Hessel E. Yntema Professor
of Law Emeritus, University of Michigan.
Arthur T. von Mehren: Story
Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard University.
Established in 1991 to honor the first editor in
chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Hessel
Yntema prize of $1,500 recognizes the "most outstanding" article by a
younger scholar under 40 years of age published in a recent volume
of the Journal.
Prize Winners
2007 -- Maximo Langer, "The Rise of Managerial
Judging in International Criminal Law," 53Am. J. Comp. L. 853-910 (2005).
2006 -- Aditi Bagchi, "The Political Economy
of Merger Regulation," 53Am. J. Comp. L. 1-30 (2005).
2005 -- Zdenĕk Kühn,
"Worlds Apart: Western and Central European Judicial Culture at the
Onset of the European Enlargement," 52 Am. J. Comp. L. 531-67
(2004).
2004 -- Mark D. West &
Emily M. Morris, "The Tragedy of the Condominiums: Legal Responses to
Collective Action Problems After the Kobe Earthquake," 51 Am. J.
Comp. L. 903-40 (2003).
2003 -- Katharina Pistor, "The Standardization of Law and Its
Effect on Developing Economies," 50 Am. J. Comp. L. 97-130
(2002).
2002 -- Tom Ginsburg, "Dismantling the 'Developmental State'?:
Administrative Procedure Reform in Japan and Korea," 49 Am. J.
Comp. L. 585-625 (2001).
2001 -- Elisabetta Grande, "Italian Criminal Justice: Borrowing
and Resistance," 48 Am. J. Comp. L. 227-59 (2000).
2000 -- Jeremy Sarkin, "The Drafting of South Africa's Final
Constitution from a Human-Rights Perspective," 47 Am. J. Comp. L.
67-87 (1999).
-- Stuart Dutson, "Product Liability
and
Private International Law: Choice of Law in Tort in England," 47 Am.
J. Comp. L. 129-46 (1999).
1996 -- Steve J. Boom, "The European Union after the Maastricht
Decision: Will Germany Be the 'Virginia of Europe'?," 43 Am. J.
Comp. L. 177-226 (1995).
1995 -- Jonathan E. Levitski, "The Europeanization of British
Legal Style," 42 Am. J. Comp. L. 347-80 (1994).
1992 -- Martin Boodman, "The Myth of Harmonization of Laws," 39 Am.
J. Comp. L. 699-724 (1991).
Senior
Scholar Prize
Established in 2001 to honor a recently deceased
ASCL member,
the Prizes Committee selects an individual to remember for his or her
scholarly legacy and service
to the ASCL. The prize of $1,500 recognizes and is awarded for the
"best scholarly" article
published in a recent volume of the Journal. "The Committee
seeks a congruence between the subject matter of the article selected
for the prize and the scholarly work of the deceased person in whose
honor
the prize is named."
Prize Winners
2006 -- Dan Henderson Prize -- Asian Law and Civil Procedure
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo and Ed Snape, "Lawyers in the Peoples Republic of China:
A Study of Commitment and Professionalism," 53 Am. J.
Comp. L. 433-456 (2005).
2005 -- Herbert L. Bernstein Prize -- Contracts
James Gordley,
"Impossibility and Changed and Unforeseen Circumstances," 52 Am. J.
Comp. L. 513-30 (2004).
2005 -- Edward M. Wise Prize -- Criminal Law and Procedure
Jacqueline E. Ross,
"Impediments to Transnational Cooperation in Undercover Policing: A
Comparative Study of the United States and Italy," 52 Am. J. Comp.
L. 569-623 (2004).
2002 -- Friedrich K. Juenger Prize -- Private International
Law
Symeon C. Symeonides,
"Choice
of Law in the American Courts in 2000: As the Century Turns," 49 Am.
J. Comp. L. 1-47 (2001).
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