“The naming of Stephen Holmes as one of the Carnegie Corporation’s 2003 scholars honors one of our most distinguished authors, educators, and scholars,” said Dean Revesz. “The award also honors our Law School by recognizing the critical and creative intellectual role our faculty plays in reflecting on the significant issues of our time.”

Holmes’ research centers on the history of European liberalism and the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism. In 1984, he published Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Yale University Press). Since then, he has published articles on democratic and constitutional theory as well as on the theoretical origins of the welfare state.

In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy. He was a member of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin during the 1991 academic year. His Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Harvard University Press) appeared in 1993 and, in 1995, he published Passions and Constraint: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (University of Chicago Press); in this work, Holmes presents a spirited vindication of classical liberalism and its notions of constitutional government. He also co-authored, with Cass Sunstein, a book on The Cost of Rights (W.W. Norton, 1999).

“Jacobs usefully underscores how difficult it would be to overcome all the obstacles—constitutional, political, and practical—to the effective regulation of guns in a society that is not fully committed to that goal.”

John Donohue, professor of law, Stanford University School of Law, The American Prospect

“Jacobs’s lucid history of twentiethcentury gun control and its abject failure in preventing crime is a good reason to read Can Gun Control Work? Unlike most scholars—not to mention a great many politicians—Jacobs has taken the time to understand how guns actually work and which groups of people firearms regulations typically harm.”

Eli Lehrer, senior editor, The American Enterprise Institute, The Weekly Standard

“If close attention to facts, reason, and common sense has any claim on the public’s thinking, this book may well break the polarized debate over gun control and make it possible to settle on a sensible public policy regarding guns, gun safety, and the reduction of gun violence. This is a ‘must read’ for anyone concerned about the debate over gun control.”

Jan Dizard, professor, Amherst College; co-editor, Guns in America

“In his new book Can Gun Control Work?, James Jacobs doesn’t so much enter the fray as propose terms for negotiations. He offers a persuasive critique of some common but misguided approaches to gun control. And in so doing, he helps point us toward strategies that might save lives while still accommodating the place guns have, and will continue to have, in our national life.”

Barton Aronson, prosecutor, Washington, D.C., FindLaw Book Reviews

In several major publications, he has challenged broad swathes of the conventional wisdom in constitutional law and theory: “Framing Transactions in Constitutional Law,” Yale Law Journal (2002); “Making Government Pay: Markets, Politics, and the Allocation of Constitutional Costs,” University of Chicago Law Review (2000); and “Rights Essentialism and Remedial Equilibration,” Columbia Law Review (1999). Important themes in Levinson’s scholarship include the instrumental purposes and mechanisms of constitutional law, the relationship between private and public law, and the distinction between markets and politics as institutions of social ordering. His work draws on interdisciplinary sources from economics, public choice, and political theory.

Here is what others have said about The Culture of Control:

“With the publication of The Culture of Control David Garland has completed an important trilogy that was begun with Punishment and Welfare in 1985 and followed by Punishment and Modern Society in 1990…. Taken as a whole this trilogy represents a stunning achievement.”

Malcolm Feeley, professor of law, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Theoretical Criminology

“The Culture of Control is unparalleled in its sophistication, breadth, and insight, and will undoubtedly serve as a reference point in the field—a field that Garland has done much to create.”

Katherine Beckett, associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Law and Society Review

“David Garland’s book is deserving of the same landmark status in criminology as his earlier works…. It demonstrates yet again the power of the ‘sociological imagination’ he so skillfully deploys in the analysis of the contemporary landscape of crime control.”

Russell Hogg, faculty of law, Australian National University, Current Issues in Criminal Justice

“Garland’s book is more than just an important contribution to criminology. It is also a major work of social analysis [that] provides one of the clearest and most convincing characterizations of contemporary society in general.”

Robert Reiner, professor of criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science, The Times Literary Supplement

“The Culture of Control…is a persuasive, indeed compelling account of economic, social, and political transformations that not only addresses the topics at hand but also offers a model for scholarship in related areas. [It] is a vast and complex work that has the potential to recast our thinking about culture, crime, and social causation.”

John Gilliom, professor of political science, Ohio University, Law and Politics Book Review

The ICTY, located in The Hague, Netherlands, was established by the U.N. Security Council in 1993 in the face of serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the former Yugoslavia beginning in 1991, and in response to the threat to international peace and security posed by these violations.

“We congratulate Ted Meron on this momentous achievement,” said Dean Revesz. “Ted’s scholarship, passion for justice, and knowledge of international human rights and humanitarian law have profoundly enriched the life of our institution during the last 26 years. Ted also exemplifies the Law School’s tradition of unprecedented leadership on international courts and tribunals.”

Born in Poland, Meron moved to Palestine and received his first legal training at the University of Jerusalem. Later, he attended Harvard Law School, earning his LL.M. and J.S.D., and Cambridge University, where he held the prestigious Humanitarian Trust Fellowship in International Law.

After Cambridge, Meron joined the Israeli foreign ministry. He was counselor to the mission to the United Nations in New York, legal adviser to the Ministry, ambassador to Canada, and permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva. He resigned from the Israeli Foreign Service in 1977 and immediately joined NYU School of Law. Since then, he has become a naturalized U.S. citizen and served as a public member of the U.S. delegation to the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Conference on Human Dimension in Copenhagen. He was counselor on international law in the U.S. Department of State in 2000-01. Between 1991 and 1995, he also held a professorship of international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Hertz has taught capital defense, juvenile rights, criminal litigation, and other courses since 1985 at the Law School. A graduate of Stanford Law School, he is renowned for a dynamic teaching style that combines complete mastery of a subject with a manner that encourages students to discover the answers themselves; for the lengths to which he will go, in and out of the classroom, to help students; for the guidance and mentorship he provides in classes and clinics; and for personally attracting so many students to the Law School.

Students are amazed at his approachability and accessibility, in light of his busy schedule. “His teaching load would crush the average teacher,” said one colleague, “yet year after year Randy’s students report that his tireless commitment to them and their development as critical thinkers has enabled them to become better problem-solvers, better students, and better lawyers.” Another colleague said: “Professor Hertz is an inspirational teacher—inspiring to his students, inspiring to his colleagues, the truly rare teacher who inspires the teaching profession itself by setting a new standard for just how good it is possible for a teacher to be.” His students agree: “Sitting in a lecture by Randy Hertz should be a requirement for every NYU School of Law student,” one wrote. “It is truly an unforgettable experience.”

Each teaching award consists of a specially designed medal and a grant of $5000. The awards are presented annually to outstanding full-time faculty members in recognition that, along with research, teaching of the highest quality is critical to the success of New York University.