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William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize

Awarded annually to the best book in the field of American legal history by an early career scholar.

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The William Nelson Cromwell
Foundation Book Prize

2004-2009

2004-2009

City of Courts : Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago by Michael Willrich
The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law by John Fabian Witt
By Birth or Consent : Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority by Holly Brewer
Calculating Promises : The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine by Roy Kreitner
Making Indian Law : the Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory by Christian W. McMillen
The Crisis of Imprisonment : Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 by Rebecca M. Mclennan