The Supreme Court Historical Society invites submissions for the Hughes-Gossett Award for the best student paper submitted to the Journal of Supreme Court History. The winner will be awarded a $500 cash prize and publication in the Journal.

The paper must be on some aspect of the Supreme Court’s history. Authors must have been enrolled as students at the time the paper was written. Past winners have been law school students or doctoral students in the departments of history, government, and political science.


Past winners of the Hughes-Gossett Student Prize:

Kurt Hohenstein, "Just What the Doctor Ordered: the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Regulation of Medical Practice, 1915-1919."

Jeffrey M. Anderson, “Conscience on the Court, 1931-1946: Religion as Duty and Choice”

Artemus Ward, “The Tenth Justice: The Retirement of William O. Douglas”

Patricia L. Franz, “Ohio v. The Bank: An Historical Examination of Osborn v. The Bank of the United States”

Kevin M. Kruse, “Public Wrongs, Personal Rights: The Gaines Decision and the Beginning of the End of Segregation”

Joseph Mosnier, “The Demise of ‘An extraordinary Criminal Procedure’: Klopfer v. North Carolina and the Incorporation of the Sixth Amendment’s Speedy Trial Provision”

I. Scott Messinger, “Legitimating Liberalism: the New Deal Image-Makers and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”

Jeannie Rhee, “In Black and White: Chinese in the Mississippi Delta”

Helen J. Knowles "May It Please the Court?: The Solicitor General's Not So "Special" Relationship--Archibald Cox and the 1963-1964 Reapportionment Cases"

Daniel W.  Hamilton "A New Right to Property: Civil War Confiscation in the Reconstruction Supreme Court"



Papers may be of any length and may be submitted on an ongoing basis to Clare Cushman, Managing Editor, at:

chcush@aol.com

Winners will be notified in September.