Recipients of the Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence

The Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence

2007

Cass R. Sunstein
"In recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law and Political Science, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the complex interplay between jurisprudential constructs and the day by day resolution of legal conflicts."

2005

Frank I. Michelman
"In recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law and Property Law, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the interplay between our own constitutional culture and that of other democratic countries similarly engaged in the pursuit of equal opportunity for all."

2002

Bruce A. Ackerman
"In recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law, History, and Political Theory, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the interplay between enduring values and continuing transformations that reflect the will of The People in our Constitutional system."

2000

Louis Henkin
"In recognition of his lifetime of scholarly research and writing to demonstrate that international human rights are more than noble aspirations to be enforced in the court of public opinion and are definable legal rights to be enforced in national and international tribunals."

1997

Joel Feinberg
for "The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law"

1994

Ronald Myles Dworkin
for "Law's Empire" and his other jurisprudential writings over the past quarter century.

1985

Samuel Edmund Thorne
for his annotated translation of Bracton's De Legibus Angliae

1980

Willard Hurst
for "Law and Social Order in the United States"

1976

Wolfgang Friedmann
for "Legal Theory" and "Law in a Changing Society"

Harry W. Jones
for "The Efficacy of Law" and "An Invitation to Jurisprudence," in Columbia Law Review

1974

John Rawls
for "A Theory of Justice"

1962

Karl N. Llewellyn
for "The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals"

1960

Roscoe Pound
for contributions to the science and philosophy of jurisprudence culminating in his five-volume work entitled "Jurisprudence"

1957

Catherine Drinker Bowen
for "The Lion and the Throne"

1955

Edmond Cahn
for "The Sense of Injustice" and his participation in, and organization of, the symposium on "Supreme Court and Supreme Law"

1950

Philip C. Jessup
for "Modern Law of Nations"

1942

Edward S. Corwin
for "The President: Office and Powers" and his articles on constitutional law

1935

Lon L. Fuller
for "American Legal Realism"

1921

Quincy Wright
for "The Relative Rights, Duties and Responsibilities of the President, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary in Theory and Practice"

1912

Charles H. Burr
for "The Treaty-making power of the United States and the methods of its enforcements as affecting the police powers of the state"

1900

W.G. Hastings
for "The Development of law as Illustrated by decisions relating to the police power of the state"

1895

George H. Smith
for "The Theory of the State"