Courting Death Takes Grand Prize at Hamilton Book Awards

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Courting Death Takes Grand Prize at Hamilton Book Awards

October 24, 2017 | Member News

Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, authored by Carol S. Steiker of Harvard Law School and Jordan M. Steiker of the University of Texas School of Law, has won the 2017 University of Texas Austin Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award. This is the highest honor for literary achievement given by the university to UT Austin authors.

Learn more about the Hamilton Award and Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment.

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