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Volume 19, No. 2; Winter, 1988 Barbara Aronstein Black Paul Brand; "The Education of Lawyers in Britain prior to 1400," Historical Review , Vol. 60 (1987) Gregory Alexander, "The Transformation of Trusts as a Legal Category, 1800-1914," Law and History Review , Vol. 60 (1987) John T. Noonan, Jr.
Volume 20, No. 1; Summer, 1989 Barbara Aronstein Black  
Volume 20, No. 2; Winter, 1990 Lawrence M. Friedman Joseph Biancalana, "For Want of Justice: Legal Reforms of Henry II," Columbia Law Review 88 Christopher L. Tomlins, "A Mysterious Power: Industrial Accidents and the Legal Construction of Employment Relations in Massachusetts, 1800-1850," Law and History Review 6
Volume 21, No. 1; Summer, 1990 Lawrence M. Friedman  
Volume 21, No. 2; Winter, 1991 Lawrence M. Friedman   Morris S. Arnold
Volume 22, No. 1; Summer, 1991 Lawrence M. Friedman  
Volume 22, No. 2; Winter, 1992 R.H. Helmholz Owing to a misunderstanding no prize was given in 1990, and so two were awarded in 1991: Philip A. Hamburger, "The Development of the Nineteenth Century Censensus Theory of Contract," Law and History Review, Vol. 7, No. 2; Amy Louise Erickson, "Common Law Versus Common Practice: The Use of Marriage Settlements in Early Modern England," Economic History Review 43 The Committee decided to split the prize equally between the following scholars: N.E.H. Hull, "Restatement and Reform: A New Perspective on the Origins of the American Law Institute," Law and History Review Vol. 8, No. 1; and Eileen Spring, "The Heiress-at-Law: English Real Property from a New Point of View," Law and History Review Vol. 8, No. 2
Volume 23, No. 1; Summer, 1992 R.H. Helmholz  
Volume 23, No. 2; Winter, 1993 R.H. Helmholz J.M. Beattie, "Scales of Justice: Defense Counsel and the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Law and History Review Vol. 9, No. 2 Peter Karsten, "The 'Discovery' of Law by English and American Jurists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Third Party Beneficiary Contracts as a Test Case," Law and History Review Vol. 9, No. 2 Leonard Levy John Baker    
Volume 24, No. 1; Summer, 1993 R.H. Helmholz  
Volume 24, No. 2; Winter, 1994 Harold M. Hyman  
Volume 25, No. 1; Summer, 1994 Harold M. Hyman  
Volume 25, No. 2; Winter, 1995 Harold M. Hyman J.L. Barton, "The Mystery of Bracton," Journal of Legal History, Vol. 14, No. 3 Philip Girard, "Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture: Beamish Murdoch and His Epitome of the Laws of Nova Scotia," Law and History Review Vol. 11, No. 1 A.W.B. Simpson Peter Landau
Volume 26, No. 1; Summer, 1995 Harold M. Hyman  
Volume 26, No. 2; Winter, 1996 Paul L. Murphy Philip Hamburger, "Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood," Columbia Law Review , Vol. 94, No. 7 (November 1994) George Behlmer, "Summary Justice and Working Class Marriage in England, 1870-1940," Law and History Review , Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 1994)
Volume 27, No. 1; Summer, 1996 Paul L. Murphy  
Volume 27, No. 2; Winter, 1997 Paul L. Murphy Joan R. Kent, "The Centre and the Localities: State Formation and Parish Government in England, ca. 1640-1740," Historical Journal Vol. 38, No. 2 Barbara Welke, "When All the Women Were White and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class and Race on the Road to Plessy , 1855-1914," Law and History Review Vol. 13, No. 2
Volume 28, No. 1; Summer, 1997 Paul L. Murphy  
Volume 28, No. 2; Winter, 1998 Laura Kalman Albert W. Alschuler, "Rediscovering Blackstone," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 145 (November 1996); Honorable Mention:
Margot Finn, "Women, Consumption and Coverture in England, 1760-1860," Historical Journal 39 (1996)
Timothy S. Haskett, "The Medieval Court of Chancery" Lawrence M. Friedman Ennio Cortese
Volume 29, No. 1; Summer, 1998 Laura Kalman  
Volume 29, No. 2; Winter, 1999 Laura Kalman David J. Ibbetson, "Fault and Absolute Liability in Pre-Modern Contract Law," Journal of Legal History, 18 (1997);
Honorable Mention, Henry Ansgar Kelly, "Statutes of Rape and Alleged Ravishers of Wives: A Context for the Charges Against Thomas Mallory, Knight," Viator , 28 (1997)
G. Edward White, "The American Law Institute and the Triumph of Modernist Jurisprudence," Law and History Review, 15 (Spring 1997) Morris Cohen, Harold M. Hyman, W. Alan J. Watson
Volume 30, No. 1; Summer, 1999 Laura Kalman   Michael Willrich, "The Two Percent Solution: Eugenic Jurisprudence and the Socialization of American    Law, 1900-1930,” Law and History Review 16 (Spring 1998): 63-111;

Christine Desan

Volume 30, No. 2/Volume 31, No. 1; Winter/Summer, 2000 Thomas A. Green Peter King, "The Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England, 1780-1840: Changing Patterns of Perception and Prosecution," Past and Present 160 (August 1998): 116-166.
Honorable Mention, Richard J. Ross, "The memorial Culture of Early Modern English Lawyers: Memory as Keyword, Shelter, and Identity, 1560-1640," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 10 (Summer 1998): 229-326.
Volume 31, No. 2; Winter, 2001 Thomas A. Green John H. Langbein, "The Prosecutorial Origins of Defence Counsel in the Eighteenth Century: the Appearance of Solicitors," Cambridge Law Journal Vol. 58, part 2; Honorable Mention: Norma Landau, "Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor's Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions," Law and History Review, Vol. 17, No. 3 Norma Landau, "Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor's Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions," Law and History Review, Vol. 17, No. 3
Volume 32, No. 2; Winter, 2002 Robert W. Gordon Robert Shoemaker, "The Decline of Public Insult in London 1660-1800," Past and Present , No. 169, 2000 James Jaffe, "Industrial Arbitration, Equity, and Authority in England, 1800-1850," Law and History Review Vol. 18
Volume 33, No. 1; Summer, 2002 Robert W. Gordon  
Volume 33, No. 2 Robert W. Gordon   Maria Agren, "Asserting One's Rights: Swedish Property Law in the Transition from Community Law to State Law," Law and History Review Vol. 19 (2001)
Volume 34, No. 1; Summer, 2003 Robert W. Gordon  
Volume 34, No. 2 Harry N. Scheiber Joseph Biancalana, "Actions of Covenant, 1200-1330," Law and History Review Stephen Jacobson, "Law and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Case of Catalonia in Comparative Perspective," Law and History Review, Vol. 20 (2002);
Honorable Mention: Ronen Shamir, "The Comrades Law of Hebrew Workers in Palestine: A Study in Socialist Justice," Law and History Review, Vol. 20 (2002)