The ABA has recently announced the finlists for its Silver Gavel awards for media and the arts, "which recognize outstanding work in media and the arts that fosters the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system. This is the ABA’s highest honor in recognition of this purpose." The finalists for the book prize are:
Garrett Epps, American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution (Oxford University Press) http://global.oup.com/academic/product/american-epic-9780199974740;jsessionid=7932A0D10DA630BEA24895E7DE73082F?cc=us&lang=en&
Marcia Coyle, The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution (Simon & Schuster) http://books.simonandschuster.com/Roberts-Court/Marcia-Coyle/9781451627510
Mark E. Brandon, States of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order
(University Press of Kansas) http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/brasta.html
Jess Bravin, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay (Yale University Press)
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300189209
Evan J. Mandery, A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America (W.W. Norton & Company Inc.)
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/A-Wild-Justice/
The rest of the finalists in other categories are here.
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