加里·劳森教授获得首届库利图书奖
The Inaugural Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize goes to Professor Lawson and coauthor Guy Seidman for 授权委托书.
加里·劳森, Phillip S. Beck Professor of Law and founding member of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, was given the first Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize by the 乔治城宪法中心.
Awarded to books about constitutional law that have a significant impact on how we view the Constitution, the Cooley Book Prize honored Lawson and coauthor Guy Seidman, of IDC Herzliya Radzyner Law School, for their book, “《委托书》：理解受托宪法.
In 授权委托书 Lawson and Seidman examine the implications of interpreting the Constitution’s grants of what they call “limited powers to the national government” and explores those powers in the context of a fiduciary Constitution. 它决定了宪法是什么样的法律文件，以及它如何影响宪法赋予政府官员的权力和这些官员对公众的责任。
据劳森说, 授权书， “takes an approach to understanding the United States Constitution that would not have been startling or interesting 200 years ago but that has been lost.” 受宪法学者罗伯特·纳泰尔森（Robert G. Natelson）著作的启发，劳森和塞德曼拒绝了其他几种对宪法的解释，包括他们自己之前将宪法视为“指导手册”的观点。 在阅读了纳泰尔森的著作后，劳森和塞德曼认为他们需要在分析宪法的方法上统一起来，并开始了他们的合作。
Lawson and Seidman see 授权委托书 as an extension of the ideas and viewpoints expressed in 必要和适当从句的起源 written by Natelson, Lawson, and Seidman along with Geoffrey Miller of the New York University 法学院.
In the first chapter of their book, Lawson and Seidman write, “Some… descriptions are closer to the mark than others, but none accurately situates the Constitution within the universe of documents known to eighteenth-century makers of legal instruments.”
库利图书奖是以托马斯·麦金太尔·库利的名字命名的，他是一位著名的法律学者，曾担任密歇根州最高法院首席大法官，以及密歇根大学法学院院长和教授。 库利发表的几部著作被认为对理解和解释宪法具有重大影响。
今年4月，在乔治城宪法中心举行了为期一天的研讨会来庆祝这本书。 在研讨会上，来自华盛顿特区法学院的宪法法学教授与劳森和塞德曼一起讨论了这本书和相关论文提出的问题。 All of these works will be published in a special issue of the 乔治城法律与公共政策杂志.