ASCL

ASCL PRIZES

 

Lifetime Achievement
Award

Hessel Yntema
Prize
Senior Scholar
Prize

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.

Hessel Yntema Prize

     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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