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.
Congratulations to the 2018 Applebaum Prize Winners, Santigo Botto Tornielli and Monica Wang; details about he 2019 award will be posted in early Spring 2019. 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