The Harry Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research
Rewarding excellence in research on media law
The Harry Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy is presented at the Law and Policy Division business meeting of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference each year. The award honors the legacy of Harry S. Stonecipher, a leading media law scholar, mentor and teacher, who served 15 years at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, beginning in 1969. Henry died in 2004.
Thanks to funding gifts from Kyu Ho Youm, Doug Anderson, and others, the Harry Stonecipher Award for Distinguished 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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2025
Amanda Reid, Lorcan Neill, & Evan Ringel, Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno-Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws, (2025) Available from Policy & Internet journal.
2024
Christina Koningisor & Lyrissa Lidsky, First Amendment Disequilibrium, 110 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2024). Available from the Virginia Law Review.
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 from the University of North Carolina Law Review.
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 from the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.
2021
Genevieve Lakier, The First Amendment’s Real Lochner Problem, 87 Univ. Chi. L. Rev. 1241 (2020). Available from The University of Chicago Law Review.
2020
Rodney A. Smolla, The Meaning of the “Marketplace of Ideas” in First Amendment Law, 24 Comm. L. & Pol’y 437 (2019). Available from Communication Law and Policy journal.
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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). Available from Communication Law and Policy journal.
2019
Morgan N. Weiland, Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition, 69 Stan. L. Rev. 1389 (2017). Available from the Stanford Law Review.
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). Available on the University of Pennsylvania Scholarly Commons.
2017
Sonja R. West, The ‘Press,’ Then & Now, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 49 (2016). Available on the University of Georgia School of Law Institutional Repository.
2016
Genevieve Lakier, The Invention of Low-Value Speech, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 2166 (2015). Available from The University of Chicago Law School repository.
2015 (inaugural)
Jane Bambauer, Is Data Speech? 66 Stan. L. Rev. 57 (2014). Available from the Stanford Law Review.