Silver Gavel Awards for Media and The Arts
The overall purpose of the Gavel Awards is to recognize annually eligible entries from
communications media that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public's
understanding of the law and the legal system.
Entry information
The permanent Gavel Award Winner Archives is maintained for the ABA by the Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law. The Tarlton Law Library also maintains a keyword searchable online archive of Gavel Award winners dating back to 1987.
Entry information
- 2008 Entry Form and Guidelines
- Download the 2008 entry form and guidelines
Download the 2008 entry form and guidelines
- 2007 Silver Gavel Awards Presentation
- 2007 Silver Gavel Award Winners
- 2007 Silver Gavel Honorable Mentions
- Celebrating 50 Years of Silver Gavel Awards
- Award Winners
- Archives
The permanent Gavel Award Winner Archives is maintained for the ABA by the Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law. The Tarlton Law Library also maintains a keyword searchable online archive of Gavel Award winners dating back to 1987.
For additional information about the Gavel Awards, please contact:
Division for Public Education
321 N. Clark St., 20.2
Chicago, IL 60610
312/988-5733 (phone)
312/988-5494 (fax attn: Gavel Awards)
howardkaplan@staff.abanet.org
The Gavel Awards seek to recognize entries reaching the public across a wide range of
communities and audiences. The "public" includes, but is not limited to, people
in their various roles as consumers, as students of all ages (including young people and
adults), and as citizens of a law-based democratic society.
To address this purpose the Gavel Awards also seeks to recognize publications and programs that meet one or more of these objectives:
- educate the public about the American constitutional/legal system and the fundamental
principles and values upon which it is based (this may include both domestic and
international issues or comparative perspectives);
- educate the public about the operations of legal institutions (e.g., the courts,
legislatures, regulatory agencies, prisons, and law enforcement agencies) and the role
lawyers and other legal professionals play in the justice system; and
- encourage public support for improvements in the American justice system by informing
the public about current practices, policies and issues.
