University of Minnesota law professors lauded

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The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences has awarded its 2017 Cheiron Book Prize to Professor Susanna Blumenthal for ”Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture.” The prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding monograph in the history of the social/behavioral/human sciences. Last month, Blumenthal’s book was also named the winner of the 2017 Merle Curti Award by the Organization of American Historians.

Blumenthal is the Law School’s Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and an associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts. She is also co-director of the Law School’s Program in Law and History.

Professor Daniel Schwarcz has received the American Law Institutes’ Young Scholars Medal. The award is presented every other year to one or two outstanding early-career law professors whose work has the potential to influence improvement in the law. Schwarcz’s research on insurance law and regulation, spanning issues such as solvency regulation, consumer protection, employer-sponsored health insurance, and insurance coverage litigation, has led directly to various law reforms that promote more transparent insurance market, the law school said on its website.