Results of Elections

Officers

Bruce H. Mann was elected president; Michael Grossberg was elected president-elect; Constance Backhouse became immediate-past-president. Sally Hadden continues as secretary, and Craig Klafter continues as treasurer.

Directors

R. B. Bernstein of New York Law School, Christian G. Fritz of the University of New Mexico, Dan Hamilton of the University of Illinois, Linda K. Kerber of the University of Iowa, and Amalia Kessler of Stanford University were elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. They replace Martha S. Jones of the University of Michigan, Michael Lobban of Queen Mary College, University of London (UK), Matthew C. Mirow of Florida International University (Miami), Rebecca J. Scott of the University of Michigan, and ohn Wertheimer of Davidson College, whose terms have expired.

Nominating Committee

Lucy E. Salyer was elected to a three-year term on the Nominating Committee. She replaces Christina Duffy Burnett of Columbia University, whose term has expired.

Prizes and Awards

Cromwell Research Fellowships

William Nelson Cromwell Research Fellowships were awarded to: Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, a Ph.D. candidate in History at Duke University for a work currently entitled: "Daughters of the Nadir: Black Girls and Childhood on Trial in South Carolina Courts, 1885-1905"; Melissa Hayes, who recently completed her Ph.D. in History at Northern Illinois University and is currently an instructor at Shawnee Community College, for a project currently entitled: "Sex in the Witness Stand: Legal Culture, Community, and Out-of- Wedlock Sexual Governance in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest"; Jeffrey Kahn, a Ph.D. candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago, for a work currently entitled: "Cracking Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Transformation of U.S. Immigration Law, 1974-1994"; and Kimberley Reilly, who recently completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago and is currently a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in History at the University of Baltimore, for a work currently entitled: "Bonds of Affection: Marriage in Law and Culture, 1870-1920."

Preyer Scholars

This year’s Preyer Memorial Committee chose two Preyer scholars:Kevin Arlyck (New York University) for his paper “Plaintiffs v. Privateers:  Litigation and Foreign Affairs in the Federal Courts, 1816-1825”;Anne Fleming (University of Pennsylvania) for her paper “The Borrower's Tale: A History of Poor Debtors in Lochner Era New York City”; and Michael Schoeppner (University of Florida) for his paper "Atlantic Emancipations and Originalism: An Atlantic Genealogy of Dred Scott.”

Cromwell Article Prize

The first Cromwell Article prize was awarded to:
Krishanti Vignarajah for her article "The Political Roots of Judicial Legitimacy: Explaining the Enduring Validity of the Insular Cases," Univerisity of Chicago Law Review, 77 (2010) 781–845.

Cromwell Dissertation Prize

The Cromwell Dissertation prize was awarded to:
Cynthia Nicoletti for “The Great Question of the War: The Legal Status of Secession in the Aftermath of the American Civil War, 1865-1869”—a dissertation submitted for the Ph.D. degree in history at the University of Virginia in 2010.

Cromwell Book Prize

The Cromwell Book Prize was awarded to:
Mark Brilliant (University of California, Berkeley) for The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil rights Reform in California, 1941-1978, published by the Oxford University Press in 2010.

Surrency Prize

This year‘s Surrency Prize was awarded to:
to Michelle McKinley of the University of Oregon for "Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1689," which appeared in Law and History Review, 28 (2010) 749–790.

Sutherland Prize

This year’s Sutherland Prize was awarded to:
N. G. Jones of Cambridge University for: "Wills, Trusts and Trusting from the Statute of Uses to Lord Nottingham," Journal of Legal History, 31 (2010) 273–98.

Reid Book Prize

The John Phillip Reid Prize for the best book in legal history published in English during the previous the calendar year was awarded to:
Christopher Tomlins for Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.