Editor’s Prize
The EDITORS’ PRIZE is awarded annually by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges to an author who has demonstrated special excellence in an article published in The American Bankruptcy Law Journal.
| Publication Year | Recipient(s) | Article |
| 2023 | Nancy Rapoport & Joseph R. Tiano | Reimagining “Reasonableness” Under Section 330(a) in a World of Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence, 97 Am. Bankr. L.J. 254 (2023) |
| 2022 | Lynn M. LoPucki | Chapter 11’s Descent into Lawlessness, 96 Am. Bankr. L.J. 247 (2022) |
| 2021 | Daniel J. Bussel | Fee Shifting in Bankruptcy, 95 Am. Bankr. L.J. 613 (2021) |
| 2020 | Douglas G. Baird | Making Sense of Make-Wholes, 94 Am. Bankr. L.J. 567 (2020) |
| 2018 | R. Stephen McNeill | Avoiding the Unavoidable: A Practitioner’s Guide to Federal Governmental Creditor Fraudulent Conveyance Actions, 92 Am. Bankr. L.J. 335 (2018) |
| 2016 | Jonathan Lipson & Christopher Marotta | Examining Success, 90 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2016) |
| 2015 | Laura B. Bartell | Stay Imposed – The Failed Policy of Section 362(c)(4), 89 Am. Bankr. L.J. 165 (2015) |
| 2014 | Lawrence Ponoroff | Constitutional Limitations on State-Enacted Bankruptcy Exemption Legislation and the Long Overdue Case for Uniformity, 88 Am. Bankr. L.J. 353 (2014) |
| 2013 | Christopher W. Frost | Bankruptcy Voting and the Designation Power, 87 Am. Bankr. L.J. 155 (2013) |
| 2012 | Troy A. McKenzie | Getting to the Core of Stern v. Marshall: History, Expertise, and the Separation of Powers, 86 Am. Bankr. L.J. 23 (2012) |
| 2011 | Susan E. Hauser | More than Abstract Justice: The Defense of Marriage Act and the Equal Treatment of Same-Sex Married Couples under Section 302(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 85 Am. Bankr. L.J. 195 (2011) |
| 2010 | Emily Kadens | The Pitkin Affair: A Study of Fraud in Early English Bankruptcy, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 483 (2010) |
| 2009 | Daniel J. Bussel & Kenneth N. Klee | Recalibrating Consent in Bankruptcy, 83 Am. Bankr. L.J. 663 (2009) |
| 2008 | Robert M. Lawless, Angela K. Littwin, Katherine M. Porter, John A. E. Pottow, Deborah K. Thorne, & Elizabeth Warren | Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail? An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors, 82 Am. Bankr. L.J. 349 (2008) |
| 2006 | Adam J. Levitin | Toward a Federal Common Law of Bankruptcy: Judicial Lawmaking in a Statutory Regime, 80 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2006) |
| 2002 | Ralph Brubaker | Of State Sovereign Immunity and Prospective Remedies: The Bankruptcy Discharge as Statutory Ex parte Young Relief, 76 Am. Bankr. L.J. 461 (2002) |
| 2001 | Margaret Howard | Shifting Risk and Fixing Blame: The Vexing Problem of Credit Card Obligations in Bankruptcy, 75 Am. Bankr. L.J. 63 (2001) |
| 1999 | David A. Moss & Gibbs A. Johnson | The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both, 73 Am. Bankr. L.J. 311 (1999) |
| 1998 | Bruce A. Markell | A New Perspective on Unfair Discrimination in Chapter 11, 72 Am. Bankr. L.J. 227 (1998) |
| 1995 | S. Elizabeth Gibson | Congressional Response to Hoffman and Nordic Village: Amended Section 106 and Sovereign Immunity, 69 Am. Bankr. L.J. 311 (1995) |
| 1994 | Daniel B. Bogart | Liability of Directors of Chapter 11 Debtors in Possession: ‘Don’t Look Back–Something May Be Gaining On You’, 68 A Am. Bankr. L.J. 155 (1994) |