2022
Catharine A. MacKinnon "in recognition of her intellectual and political leadership in international law, constitutional law, political and legal theory, and jurisprudence[...]"

2020
Owen M. Fiss "In recognition of his lifetime of contributions to American law and jurisprudence[...]"

2013
Laurence H. Tribe."In recognition of his contributions to understanding the United States Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court in its interpretation."

2011
Jeremy James Waldron. “In recognition his intellectual leadership in political theory and legal philosophy."

2009
Martha Craven Nussbaum. “In recognition of her intellectual leadership in philosophy, law and religion."

2007
Cass R. Sunstein. "In recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law and Political Science."

2005
Frank I. Michelman. "In recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law and Property Law, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the interplay between our own constitutional culture and that of other democratic countries similarly engaged in the pursuit of equal opportunity for all."

2002
Bruce A. Ackerman. "In recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law, History, and Political Theory, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the interplay between enduring values and continuing transformations that reflect the will of The People in our Constitutional system."

2000
Louis Henkin. "In recognition of his lifetime of scholarly research and writing to demonstrate that international human rights are more than noble aspirations to be enforced in the court of public opinion and are definable legal rights to be enforced in national and international tribunals."

1997
Joel Feinberg for The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law.

1994
Ronald Myles Dworkin for Law's Empire and his other jurisprudential writings over the past quarter century.

1985
Samuel Edmund Thorne for his annotated translation of Bracton's De Legibus Angliae.

1980
Willard Hurst for Law and Social Order in the United States.

1976
Wolfgang Friedmann for Legal Theory and Law in a Changing Society.

Harry W. Jones for "The Efficacy of Law" and "An Invitation to Jurisprudence," in Columbia Law Review.

1974
John Rawls for A Theory of Justice.

1962
Karl N. Llewellyn for The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals.

1960
Roscoe Pound for contributions to the science and philosophy of jurisprudence culminating in his five-volume work entitled Jurisprudence.

1957
Catherine Drinker Bowen for The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634.

1955
Edmond Cahn for The Sense of Injustice: A Contemporary Reintroduction and his participation in, and organization of, the symposium on "Supreme Court and Supreme Law."

1950
Philip C. Jessup for Modern Law of Nations.

1942
Edward S. Corwin for The President: Office and Powers and his articles on constitutional law.

1935
Lon L. Fuller for American Legal Realism.

1921
Quincy Wright for "The Control of the Foreign Relations of the United States; The Relative Rights, Duties and Responsibilities of the President, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary, in Theory and Practice."

1912
Charles H. Burr for "The Treaty-making power of the United States and the methods of its enforcements as affecting the police powers of the state."

1900
W.G. Hastings for "The Development of law as Illustrated by decisions relating to the police power of the state."

1895
George H. Smith for "The Theory of the State."