American Book Awards
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Edition 6 (1985) Winner
Peter H. Irons
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Peter H. Irons
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1940-08-11
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. → San Diego, California, U.S. → Danbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Career
- Occupations
- political activist, civil rights attorney, legal scholar, professor emeritus of political science, author
- Active Years
- 1963-
- Affiliations
- Boston University (faculty), Boston College Law School (faculty), University of Massachusetts (faculty), University of California, San Diego (faculty; founder/director of the Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) national board member, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights (Rutgers University, 1988)
- Memberships
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) national board
- Influenced By
- Howard Zinn
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antioch College | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| Boston University | — | Political science (estimated) | PhD | — | United States |
| Harvard Law School | — | Law School | J.D. | — | United States |
Antioch College
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
Studied at an institution known for progressive politics
Boston University
Political science (estimated)
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
1973
Country:
United States
Received PhD in 1973
Harvard Law School
Law School
Degree:
J.D.
Year of Graduation:
1978
Country:
United States
Earned J.D.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Durfee Award | — | — | University of California, San Diego | 受賞 |
| 1986 | UCSD certificate of excellence | — | — | University of California, San Diego | 受賞 |
| 1989 | Ceil Podoloff Award | — | — | American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | 受賞 |
| 1989 | American Bar Association Certificate of Merit | The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court | — | American Bar Association (ABA) | 受賞（Certificate of Merit） |
| 2000 | Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mention | — | — | American Bar Association | 名誉言及 |
| 2003 | Silver Gavel Award | — | — | American Bar Association | 受賞 |
Durfee Award
1984
Organization:
University of California, San Diego
Result:
受賞
UCSD certificate of excellence
1986
Organization:
University of California, San Diego
Result:
受賞
Ceil Podoloff Award
1989
Organization:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Result:
受賞
American Bar Association Certificate of Merit
1989
Work:
The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court
Organization:
American Bar Association (ABA)
Result:
受賞（Certificate of Merit）
Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mention
2000
Organization:
American Bar Association
Result:
名誉言及
Silver Gavel Award
2003
Organization:
American Bar Association
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The New Deal Lawyers
1982 legal history / political historyA study of lawyers during the New Deal era and their political roles.
legal historyNew Dealjudiciary and politics
The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court
1988 court history / biographyProfiles sixteen Americans whose cases shaped the Supreme Court.
civil rightslitigationindividual rights
Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases
1989 legal history / human rightsAn account of the internment cases of Japanese Americans and the subsequent efforts for redress.
rights during wartimeracial discriminationjudicial redress
A People's History of the Supreme Court
1999 judicial historyA popular history of the Supreme Court from the perspective of the people.
role of judiciarycitizens and courtshistorical analysis
Bibliography
- The New Deal Lawyers
- Justice at War
- The Courage of Their Convictions
- Justice Delayed
- Making Law: The Case for Judicial Activism
- May It Please the Court (various volumes)
- A People's History of the Supreme Court
- Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
- War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution
- God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- scholarly yet accessible explanatory stylehistorical-biographical approach to legal history
- Recurring Motifs
- civil rights and the judiciarydefense of individual rightstensions between wartime policies and law
Legacy
Peter H. Irons is recognized as a scholar of U.S. judicial and civil rights history who influenced both academia and civil society through his work on internment cases and activism; he is also known for his accessible books on legal history.
Archives
- University of California, San Diego — related archival materials
Trivia
- In 1963 he was imprisoned for draft refusal; his conviction was later reversed and he received a pardon from President Gerald Ford.
- He corresponded with Howard Zinn and later worked with lawyers defending Daniel Ellsberg.
- He helped reopen the internment cases of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gordon Hirabayashi.