Law and Courts Section Awards

Mark Graber, the chair of the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association, has announced the recipients of two awards:

The 2006 American Judicature Society Award for "the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings" goes to Kevin McGuire and Georg Vanberg for their paper, "Mapping the Policies of the U.S. Supreme Court."

The 2006 C. Herman Pritchett Award for “the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year” goes to Peter H. Russell for his book, Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism (University of Toronto 2005).