Prizes

Lifetime Achievement Award

Established in 2003 to honor living senior comparatists whose writings have changed the shape or direction of American comparative or private international law. It is a "non-monetary recognition of lifetime extraordinary scholarly contributions to comparative law in the United States."

Award Winners

2009	Mirjan R. Damaška: Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale Law School

2004	John Henry Merryman: Nelson Bowman Sweitzer & Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law Emeritus and Affiliated Professor of Art Emeritus, Stanford University. Eric Stein: Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Michigan. Arthur T. von Mehren: Story Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard University.

Hessel Yntema Prize

Established in 1991 to honor the first editor in chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Hessel Yntema prize of $1,500 recognizes the "most outstanding" article by a younger scholar under 40 years of age published in a recent volume of the Journal.

Prize Winners

2010	Richard Albert, “The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism,” 57 Am. J. Comp. L. 531 (2009).

2009	Haider Ala Hamoudi, "The Muezzin's Call and the Dow Jones Bell: On the Necessity of Realism in the Study of Islamic Law, 56Am. J. Comp. L.423 (2008).

2008	Ron Scalise, "Why No 'Efficient Breach' in the Civil Law?: A Comparative Assessment of the Doctrine of Efficient Breach of Contract" 55Am. J. Comp. L. 721 (2007).

2007	Maximo Langer, "The Rise of Managerial Judging in International Criminal Law," 53Am. J. Comp. L. 853-910 (2005).

2006	Aditi Bagchi, "The Political Economy of Merger Regulation," 53Am. J. Comp. L. 1-30 (2005).

2005	Zdenĕk Kühn, "Worlds Apart: Western and Central European Judicial Culture at the Onset of the European Enlargement," 52 Am. J. Comp. L. 531-67 (2004).

2004	Mark D. West & Emily M. Morris, "The Tragedy of the Condominiums: Legal Responses to Collective Action Problems After the Kobe Earthquake," 51 Am. J. Comp. L. 903-40 (2003).

2003	Katharina Pistor, "The Standardization of Law and Its Effect on Developing Economies," 50 Am. J. Comp. L. 97-130 (2002).

2002	Tom Ginsburg, "Dismantling the 'Developmental State'?: Administrative Procedure Reform in Japan and Korea," 49 Am. J. Comp. L. 585-625 (2001).

2001	Elisabetta Grande, "Italian Criminal Justice: Borrowing and Resistance," 48 Am. J. Comp. L. 227-59 (2000).

2000	Jeremy Sarkin, "The Drafting of South Africa's Final Constitution from a Human-Rights Perspective," 47 Am. J. Comp. L. 67-87 (1999). Stuart Dutson, "Product Liability and Private International Law: Choice of Law in Tort in England," 47 Am. J. Comp. L. 129-46 (1999).

1996	Steve J. Boom, "The European Union after the Maastricht Decision: Will Germany Be the 'Virginia of Europe'?," 43 Am. J. Comp. L. 177-226 (1995).

1995	Jonathan E. Levitski, "The Europeanization of British Legal Style," 42 Am. J. Comp. L. 347-80 (1994).

1992	Martin Boodman, "The Myth of Harmonization of Laws," 39 Am. J. Comp. L. 699-724 (1991).

Senior Scholar Prize

Established in 2001 to honor a recently deceased ASCL member, the Prizes Committee selects an individual to remember for his or her scholarly legacy and service to the ASCL. The prize of $1,500 recognizes and is awarded for the "best scholarly" article published in a recent volume of the Journal. "The Committee seeks a congruence between the subject matter of the article selected for the prize and the scholarly work of the deceased person in whose honor the prize is named."

Prize Winners

2008	Ed Wise Prize Jacqueline Ross, "The Place of Covert Surveillance in Democratic Societies: A Comparative Study of the United States nad Germany," 55Am. J. Comp. L.(2007).

2008	Rudy Schlesinger Prize - - Comparative Methodology David Clark, "The Modern Development of American Comparative Law: 1904-1945," 55Am. J. Comp. L. 587 (2007).

2006	Dan Henderson Prize -- Asian Law and Civil Procedure Carlos Wing-Hung Lo and Ed Snape, "Lawyers in the Peoples Republic of China: A Study of Commitment and Professionalism," 53 Am. J. Comp. L. 433-456 (2005).

2005	Herbert L. Bernstein Prize -- Contracts James Gordley, "Impossibility and Changed and Unforeseen Circumstances," 52 Am. J. Comp. L. 513-30 (2004).

2005	Edward M. Wise Prize -- Criminal Law and Procedure Jacqueline E. Ross, "Impediments to Transnational Cooperation in Undercover Policing: A Comparative Study of the United States and Italy," 52 Am. J. Comp. L. 569-623 (2004).

2002	Friedrich K. Juenger Prize -- Private International Law Symeon C. Symeonides, "Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2000: As the Century Turns," 49 Am. J. Comp. L. 1-47 (2001).

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