Blogroll

• Above the Law
  
• Althouse
  
• Bag and Baggage
  
• Dennis Kennedy
  
• Ernie the Attorney
  
• Patent Baristas
  
• Patently-O
  
• PrawfsBlawg
• Professor Bainbridge
  
• SCOTUSblog
  
• Volokh Conspiracy
  
• The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog
  

« Barack Obama: The BlogHer Interview | Main | Federal Judge an Unlikely Blogger »

ABA Announces Silver Gavel Awards

The American Bar Association has announced the winners of its 2008 Silver Gavel Awards for Media & The Arts, which honor "communications media that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public's understanding of the law and the legal system." This year's four winners are:

• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, the book by Jeffrey Toobin
• The Denver Post series, Lawless Lands, about the failure of the federal judicial system to investigate and prosecute crime on American Indian reservations
• WNET New York’s four-part PBS television series, "The Supreme Court"
• Nova/WGBH’s documentary, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," which examined the federal court case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

Selected for honorable mentions were the book Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul, by Edward Humes, which also covers the Kitzmiller case; a second Denver Post series on lost DNA evidence, Trashing the Truth: The Hidden Story of Lost DNA; a series of death penalty editorials by The Dallas Morning News; Thanks for Nothing, an investigation by The Nation magazine into military discharges for "personality disorder"; a Touro Law Center documentary, "Hitler’s Courts"; and a WMAR-TV Baltimore report, Mortgage Meltdown.

The awards will be presented during a special program Aug. 5 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on May 27, 2008 at 11:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)