Hawkins Award
Fiction
1997 Commodity & Propriety by Gregory Alexander
Encompassing two hundred years of legal writing, Alexander's study shows how intellectuals have constructed the core meaning of property as not only a legal but also a social, political, and economic concept of institution. By tracing a long-range, contextual view of property, Alexander offers an entirely original and compelling picture of its history as a legal principle. This first full-length history of property radically revises our view of a concept that remains central to American culture and legal thought.
2000 The Bees of the World by Charles Duncan Michener