The Harry Stonecipher Award for Outstanding Research
Rewarding excellence in research on media law
Thanks to funding gifts from Kyu Ho Youm, Doug Anderson, and others, the Harry Stonecipher Award for Outstanding Research was created in 2014 to recognize top-level research in book or article form. It is awarded annually by the Law & Policy Division.
Past and current winners are listed below.
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2023
RonNell A. Jones & Sonja R. West, The U.S. Supreme Court's Characterizations of the Press: An Empirical Study, 100 N.C. L. Rev. 375 (2022). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol100/iss2/3.
2022
Jared Schroeder, Fixing False Truths: Rethinking Truth Assumptions and Free-Expression Rationales in the Networked Era, 29 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1097 (2021). Available at https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol29/iss4/5.
2021
Genevieve Lakier, The First Amendment’s Real Lochner Problem, 87 Univ. Chi. L. Rev. 1241 (2020). Available at https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol87/iss5/2/.
2020
Rodney A. Smolla, The Meaning of the “Marketplace of Ideas” in First Amendment Law, 24 Comm. L. & Pol’y 437 (2019). Request from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337176344_The_Meaning_of_the_Marketplace_of_Ideas_in_First_Amendment_Law.
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Robert L. Kerr, From Holmes to Zuckerberg: Keeping Marketplace of Ideas Theory Viable in the Age of Algorithms, 24 Comm. L. & Pol’y 477 (2019). Request from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337179593_From_Holmes_to_Zuckerberg_Keeping_Marketplace-of-Ideas_Theory_Viable_in_the_Age_of_Algorithms.
2019
Morgan N. Weiland, Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition, 69 Stan. L. Rev. 1389 (2017). Available at http://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/04/69-Stan-L-Rev-1389.pdf.
2018
Victor Pickard, The Strange Life and Death of the Fairness Doctrine: Tracing the Decline of Positive Freedoms in American Policy Discourse, 12 Int’l J. of Commc’n 3434 (2018). Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/745.
2017
Sonja R. West, The ‘Press,’ Then & Now, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 49 (2016). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1067.
2016
Genevieve Lakier, The Invention of Low-Value Speech, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 2166 (2015). Available at https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_articles/8075/.
2015 (inaugural)
Jane Bambauer, Is Data Speech? 66 Stan. L. Rev. 57 (2014). Available at https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/01/66_Stan._L_Rev_57_Bambauer.pdf.