Greg Ablavsky, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, was the inaugural recipient of the Legal History Article of the Year Prize given by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. Ablavsky’s article, “Getting Public Rights Wrong: The Lost History of the Private Land Claims,” published in the Stanford Law Review, tackled the subject of public rights, a category the U.S. Supreme Court has used since 1856 to designate those rights susceptible to federal administrative adjudication rather than adjudication in the Article III courts. “Getting Public Rights Wrong” establishes “a fundamental point that has heretofore gone misunderstood in the historical literature, with serious consequences in the jurisprudence of the 21st century administrative state,” according to a Cromwell Foundation press release. The foundation supports work in American legal history.  SL