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J. Welles Henderson '43 Senior Thesis Prize
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Program Overview
Created by Federal Judge Arlin M. Adams in honor of his friend, J. Welles Henderson '43, this prize is awarded to the Princeton undergraduate senior who has written the most outstanding thesis on a law-related subject. An eligible thesis deals centrally with a question related to law, and may be from any discipline. Among the topics welcome for consideration are legal history, law and public policy, law and literature, legal philosophy, sociology of law, law and politics, legal anthropology, science and law, psychology of law, law and religion, law and art, as well as law and economics. The prize committee considers theses in international, comparative or American law, as well as theses primarily about the law of any country other than the US.
Awards and Announcements
2009 Winner
Andrew Paul Dixon, Department of Comparative Literature for his thesis “Laws Before the Law, Laws Behind the Laws: Reflections on, Refractions of, Images of Law and Authority in Kafka”
Honorable Mention: Lucy Adeline Guarnera, Department of Psychology for her thesis, “Making the Crime Fit the Punishment: The Interplay of Punishment, Moral Outrage, and Legitimacy in the Context of Strict Liability Laws”
Honorable Mention: Jessica Lauren Frey, Department of Art and Archaeology, for her thesis, “Internationalism along the Nile: Egyptian Policy and Foreign Archaeology”
Previous Winners
2008 Winner
Zachary Squire, Department of Classics, for his thesis "Property and Conception of the State in Cicero."
Summary
Honorable Mention: Jon di Cristina, Department of History, for his thesis, "Blood it Defileth the Land: Conservative Christianity and Capital Punishment in the United States."
Summary
2007 Winner
Elizabeth Skeen, Anthropology, for her thesis, "The Rape of a Trial: Jacob Zuma, AIDS, Conspiracy, and Tribalism in Neo-liberal Post-Apartheid South Africa." Her advisor was John Borneman.
Thesis
2006 Winners
Amaka Megwalu, Woodrow Wilson School, for her thesis "Looking Back,
Moving Forward: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda." Her advisor was Gary
Bass.
Jeremy Golubcow-Teglasi, Religion, for his thesis "Truth, Power and Coherence: Holmes and the Theology of Law." His advisor was Eric Gregory.
Selection Process
Academic departments are invited to nominate excellent law-related theses for consideration. A faculty committee reads each submission and selects the winner. Winners receive a $1,000 prize and runners up receive a $250 prize and an honorable mention.
LAPA Seminar
Eli Salzberger, LAPA Fellow and University of Haifa
The Law and Economics Analysis of Intellectual Property: Paradigmatic Shift From Incentives to Traditional Property
November 9 2009, 4:30-6 PM, Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Special Event
Full Court Press
The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Understanding
November 11 2009, 4:30 PM, Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium
Co-sponsored Event
Andrew P. Morriss, University of Illinois College of Law; Craig A. Nard, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
An Interest Group Perspective on Patent Law's Development
November 11 2009, 4:30 PM, Lewis Library 120
LEGS Seminar
Jacob Olidort, Ph.D. candidate, Near Eastern Studies
Between Rite and Responsibility
November 16 2009, 4:30 PM, Kerstetter Room,
LAPA Seminar
Ralf Michaels, LAPA Fellow; Duke University School of Law
U.S. Courts as World Courts - Practice, Theory, Legitimacy
November 23 2009, 4:30-6 PM, Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
LAPA Seminar
Judith Resnik, Yale Law School
Detention, Habeas Corpus, Specialized Tribunals, and the War on Terror: Violence in the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Courts
December 7 2009, 4:30-6 PM, Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
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