About the Department

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is awarded for the best book published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year on government, politics, or international affairs. The award is supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The 2009 recipient is Jens Meierhenrich (Harvard University) for The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).