Professor Wins Prize For Paper on Supreme Court History
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 1, 1999
Lacey Williams
530-898-4143
Professor Wins Prize For Paper on Supreme Court History
California State University, Chico is pleased to announce that Artemus Ward, a professor in the Department of Political Science, has received the 1999 Hughes-Gossett Prize for his paper “The Tenth Justice: The Retirement of William O. Douglas.”
Ward, who joined the political science department this fall, wrote the paper last spring while in graduate school at Syracuse University.
The Hughes-Gossett Prize, awarded by the Supreme Court Historical Society, is given to the best paper written by a student (law, graduate or undergraduate) on a topic in Supreme Court history.
In addition to receiving $500, Ward will have his paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History.
In June, Ward will attend the society’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. to receive the award from one of the Supreme Court Justices. He will also attend the black tie dinner reception that follows the award ceremony.
As part of a larger work on retirements in the U.S. Supreme Court, Ward traveled to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to analyze the papers of Justice Douglas as well as others. Ward is currently in the process of publishing the larger work as a book.
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