Description
The Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award recognizes a significant textual contribution to legal literature. A variety of formats will be considered so long as the work is significant due to its enduring research value, the result of extensive effort, and/or its impact. Nominations for the Andrews Award shall be measured by the creative, evaluative elements and the extent to which originality and judgment were factors in the formation of the work. The award honors works of legal bibliography, legal research texts, and works that advance the field of law librarianship more generally.
PROCESS
Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration the work must have been published or made accessible to users during the calendar year prior to the year for which it is being nominated for the Andrews Award. The Award is not limited to publications prepared by law librarians or AALL members. Current AALL Executive Board members are not eligible for this award.
Application Information
The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2023. Please email the nomination form and supporting documentation as a single PDF to Kim Rundle.
Download the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award Nomination Form
To make a nomination for the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award, please fill out the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award Nomination form. Electronic submission of nominations is encouraged; however, print submissions are also acceptable. It is not necessary to submit a copy of the work when making nominations; however, the Andrews Award Subcommittee may contact the nominator to request a copy for evaluation purposes if the work is not easily accessible. For nominations of electronic publications, please provide appropriate access information for the Awards Committee to gain access to the publication, including URL, login, password (if necessary), etc.
Award Presentation
The award is issued by the American Association of Law Libraries and presented during the AALL Annual Meeting.
Winners
2020 - 2022 2022
CO-EDITORS
Zanada Joyner
Senior Reference Librarian
North Carolina Central University School of Law Library
Durham, NCCas Laskowski
Head of Research, Data & Instruction
University of Arizona College of Law Library
Tucson, AZIntroduction to Law Librarianship
CO-EDITORS
Emily S. Bremer
Associate Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, INKathryn E. Kovacs
Professor of Law
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Camden, NJCharlotte D. Schneider
Head of Public Services
Rutgers Law Library-Camden
Rutgers Law School
Camden, NJBremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946
2021
CO-AUTHORS
Melissa Beck
Head of Cataloging
UCLA Law Library
Los Angeles, CAMelody Busse Lembke
Retired
Associate Director of the Law Library, Collection Services
University of California, Irvine
Pasadena, CACataloging Legal Literature, 5th edition
CO-EDITORS
Joan S. Howland
Roger F. Noreen Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Information & Technology
University of Minnesota Law Library
Minneapolis, MNScott B. Pagel
Director of the Law Library, Associate Dean for Information Services, and Professor of Law
Jacob Burns Law Library
George Washington University
Washington, DCMichelle M. Wu
Retired
Associate Dean for Library Services and Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law School
Washington, DCAcademic Law Libraries Within the Changing Landscape of Legal Education: A Primer for Deans and Provosts
CO-AUTHORS
Douglas W. Lind
Law Library Director and Professor of Law
Southern Illinois University Law Library
Carbondale, ILStacia Stein
Chicago, ILThe Leaven of Sympathy: A Bio-Bibliography of Frederick C. Hicks
2020
CO-EDITORS
Ed Edmonds
Professor Emeritus of Law
Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, IDFrank G. Houdek
Emeritus Professor of Law
Southern Illinois University School of Law
Carbondale, ILBusiness and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment (BLASE), HeinOnline
EDITOR
Ellyssa Kroski
Director of Information Technology & Marketing
The New York Law Institute
New York, NYLaw Librarianship in the Age of AI
2010 - 2019 2019
Harris County Law Library
Houston, TXPro Se Litigant Handbook and Manual para Litigantes Pro Se
EDITOR AND CO-AUTHOR
Shamika D. Dalton
Associate Director for Public Services & Professor of Legal Research
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Gainesville, FLCO-AUTHORS
Dr. Yvonne J. Chandler
Associate Professor
University of North Texas College of Information
Department of Information Science
Denton, TXVicente E. Garces
Reference Administration & Web Services Librarian
University of Minnesota Law School
Minneapolis, MNDennis C. Kim-Prieto
Reference Librarian
Rutgers University Law School
Newark, NJCarol Avery Nicholson
Associate Director for Technical Services, Retired
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Durham, NCDr. Michele A. L. Villagran
Assistant Professor
San Jose State University
San Jose, CACelebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in the American Association of Law Libraries (2nd edition)
2018
CO-AUTHORS
Michael Widener
Rare Book Librarian
Lillian Goldman law Library, Yale Law School
New Haven, CTMark Weiner
Hamden, CTLaw’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection
2017
Shelley L. Dowling
Librarian of the Court, U.S. Supreme Court, Retired
U.S. Supreme Court Library
Williamsburg, VAElbridge Thomas Gerry: An Exceptional Life in Gilded Gotham
Jessica Winston, PhD
Chair, History Department and Professor of English
Idaho State University
Pocatello, IDLawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581
Richard C. Amelung, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Legal Research
Vincent C. Immel Law Library
St. Louis, MOLLMC Staff
Kanache, HIThe Legal Patrimony of Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography
2016
Michael H. Roffer
Associate Librarian and Professor of Legal Research
Mendik Library, New York Law School
New York, NYThe Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law
2015
Ann Jordan Laeuchli, (awarded posthumously)
Associate Librarian
Yale Law School
New Haven, CTWITA Bibliographical Catalog of William Blackstone
Mary Sarah Bilder
Professor of Law
Boston College Law School
Newton Centre, MACharles Donahue, Jr.
Paul A. Freund Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MASharon Hamby O’Connor
Professor Emerita of Law
Boston College Law School
Newton Centre, MAAppeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue
2014
Ellyssa Kroski
Director of Information Technology
New York Law Institute
New York, NYLaw Librarianship in the Digital Age
Barbara Berdahl, Principal Author
Special Collections Assistant LibrarianGlen Anderson, Contributing Author
Multimedia SpecialistKatherine Hedin, Contributing Author
Curator of Rare Books and Special CollectionsDaniel Matthews, Contributing Author
Circulation/Reserves LibrarianUniversity of Minnesota Law Library
Minneapolis, MNWalter F. Mondale: Spokesman for Reform and Justice in the U.S. Senate website
2013
Douglas W. Lind
Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law
Southern Illinois University School of Law
Carbondale, ILLincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus: The Pamphlet Literature and Congressional Debate
2012
Richard A. Danner
Rufty Research Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Information Services
Duke Law School
Durham, NCJules Winterton
Librarian and Associate Director
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
University of London
London, EnglandIALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management
Michael J. Hannon
Associate Director for Library and Educational Technology
University of Minnesota Law Library
Minneapolis, MNThe Clarence Darrow Digital Collection
2011
No winner selected
2010
Kent C. Olson
University of Virginia Law LibraryPrinciples of Legal Research
2000 - 2009 2009
William H. Manz
Rittenburg Law Library
St. John’s University School of LawGuide to State Legislation, Legislative History, and Administrative Materials (Hein 2008)
2008
Edward Grosek
Founders Memorial Library
Northern Illinois University
The Secret Treaties of History, 2nd ed. (Hein 2007)2007
Michael Chiorazzi
Director and Professor of Law
University of Arizona College of Law LibraryMarguerite I. Most
Legal Information Librarian & Lecturer in Law
Boston College Law LibraryPrestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and District of Columbia, (Routledge, 2006)
2006
Christopher T. Anglim
History, Collection Development, Government Documents, and Periodicals Librarian
John B. Coleman Library
Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View, TXJoined in Common Enterprise: A Bibliography on the Origins of Early Anglo-American Partnership Law published by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
2005
William H. Manz
Senior Research Librarian
Law Library, St. John’s University School of LawGibson’s New York Legal Research Guide published by W.S. Hein
2004
Loretta Price
Acquisitions Librarian and Associate Professor
University of TennesseeAn Explosive Quarter-Century: A Guide to Monographic Works on Women’s Legal and Political Rights
2003
Richard Leiter
Professor of Law and Director
University of Nebraska School of Law LibraryNational Survey of State Laws, 4th ed.
2002
Jerry Dupont
Executive Director
Law Library Microform Consortium
Kaneohe, HawaiiThe Common Law Abroad: Constitutional and Legal Legacy of the British Empire
Jolande E. Goldberg
Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist for Law Classification
Library of Congress
Washington, DCLibrary of Congress Classification, KBR, KBU: History of Canon Law & the Law of the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See
2001
Shelley L. Dowling
Mary C. Custy
The Jurisprudence of United States Constitutional Interpretation: An Annotated Bibliography2000
Kent Olson
Public Services Librarian
University of Virginia Law Library
Legal Information: How to Find It, How to Use It1990 - 1999 1999
Morris L. Cohen
Professor Emeritus of Law
Yale Law SchoolBibliography of Early American Law
1998
Kendall F. Svengalis
Rhode Island State Law LibraryLegal Information Buyer’s Guide and Reference Manual 1997-1998
1997
Penny Hazelton
Peggy Roebuck Jarrett
Nancy McMurrer
Cheryl Nyberg
Mary WhisnerThe Washington Legal Researchers’ Deskbook, 2d edition (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, 1996).
1996
Morris L. Cohen
Sharon Hamby O’Connor
A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States (Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1995)1995
Bernard D. Reams
Federal Legislative Histories: an Annotated Bibliography and Index to Officially Published Sources (Greenwood Press, 1993)
1994
Fred Shapiro
The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations (Oxford University Press, 1993)
1993
Jurgen Christoph Godan
International Legal Bibliographies: A Worldwide Guide & Critique (AALL Newsletter, September 1993, Vol 25, No.1)
1992
Claire Germain
Germain’s Transnational Law Research, A Guide for Attorneys (Transnational Juris Publications, 1991)
1991
Gloria Westfall
Guide to Official Publications of Foreign Countries<~>(CIS)
1990
Arturo A. Flores
Thomas H. ReynoldsForeign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World (Rothman)
1980 - 1989 1989
Ellen M. Gibson
New York Legal Research Guide (William S. Hein and Company)
Igor I. Kavass
Soviet Law in English: Research Guide and Bibliography, 1970-87 (William S. Hein and Company)
1988
John W. Williams
A Guide to International Legal Research (George Washington Journal of International Law & Economics)
1987
Paul O’Higgins
A Bibliography of Irish Trials and Other Legal Proceedings (Professional Books, Ltd.)
1986
Paul Finkelman
Slavery in the Courtroom (Library of Congress)
1985
Wilfred J. Ritz
American Judicial Proceedings First Printed Before 1801: An Analytical Bibliography (Greenwood Press
1984
Simone-Marie Kleckner
Blanka KudejInternational Legal Bibliography (Oceana)
1983
Ted L. McDorman
Kenneth Beauchamp
Douglas M. JohnstonMaritime Boundary Delimitation: An Annotated Bibliography (Lexington Books)
1982
Carol Boast
Lynn Foster
Subject Compilations of State Laws: Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press)Kathryn Swanson
Affirmative Action and Preferential Admissions in Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press)
1981
Dorothy P. Wells
Child Abuse (Scarecrow Press)
1980
John R. Lewis
Uncertain Judgment: A Bibliography of War Crimes Trails (ABC-CLIO Inc.)
Win-Shin S. Chiang
Lance E. DicksonLegal Bibliography Index, 1978 (Legal Bibliography Index)
1970 - 1979 1979
Beatrice J. Kalisch
Child Abuse & Neglect (Greenwood Press)
1978
Marija Matich Hughes
Sexual Barrier (Hughes Press)
1977
Sir Leon Radzinowicz
Roger HoodCriminology and the Administration of Criminal Justice (Mansell)
1976
Fannie J. Klein
The Administration of Justice in the Courts (Oceana)
1975
Helena P. von Pfeil
Juvenile Rights Since 1967 (Rothman)
1974
No winner selected
1973
Wybo P. Heere
Air Law Bibliography (Oceana)
Lily Melchior Roberts
Bibliography of Legal Festschriften (Nijhoff)
1972
Dorothy C. Tompkins
Sentencing the Offender (Institute of Governmental Studies) and The Prison and the Prisoner (Institute of Governmental Studies)
1971
Harry Bitner
Meira PimsleurFor contributions to Law Books Recommended for Libraries (Rothman)
1970
Richard Sloane
Recommended Law Books (ABA)
1967 - 1969 1969
Ralph E. McCoy
Freedom of the Press (Southern Illinois University Press)
1968
Stojan A. Bayitch
Latin America and the Caribbean (Oceana)
Beatrice S. McDermott
Freda A. ColemanGovernment Regulation of Business (Gale)
Jacob Robinson
International Law and Organization: General Sources of Information (Humanities)
1967
Anthony Grech
The Dominican Crisis (Oceana) and The Southeast Asia Crisis (Oceana)