The Harvey M. Applebaum '59 Award is conferred on a Yale College senior for an outstanding essay based on research done in the Yale University Library's government documents collections. The prize is an award of $500.
This prize was established in 2008 by the daughters of Harvey M. Applebaum, class of 1959, in honor of his 70th birthday. Mr. Applebaum is a senior counsel, specializing in international trade and antitrust law, with the Washington firm of Covington & Burling LLP and a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a past Chairman of the Association of Yale Alumni and the Yale Alumni Magazine board.
The deadline for the 2018 Applebaum Award is Thursday, April 26 at 11:59 p.m. Contact Kenya Flash, Government Information Librarian at the CSSSI, with any questions about the Applebaum Award.
Essays from 2015
Moving the Needle: How Transparency Could Lower Costs and Improve Quality in United States Hospitals, Anna "Nina" Russell
The President's Wartime Detention Authority : What History Teaches Us, Anirudh Sivaram
Essays from 2013
Strange Bedfellows: Business, Labor, Guest Workers, and Immigration Reform in the United States, 1986-2013, Tom Stanley-Becker
Essays from 2012
"Missionaries of Ordered Liberty": U.S. Colonial Sponsorship of Self-Government in the Wake of the Spanish-American War, 1899-1904, Conor Crawford
Cease or Persist? Gene Patents and the Clinical Diagnostics Dilemma, Christopher Lee
Essays from 2010
“The Dictates of Sound Policy”: Contending with the Western Indians under the New American Constitution, Avi Kupfer
Estimating the Returns to Expenditures in Canadian Elections: Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design, Habib Moody