Two legal scholars, James W. Hurst and George O. Sayles, have received the James Barr Ames Award, the Law School announced today. The prize, established in 1898, is awarded every four years "for a meritorious essay or book on some legal subject."
Hurst, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School will receive his award from President Pusey at a meeting of the Law Faculty on January 13, 1959. The award to Sayles, who is Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, will be made by Samuel E. Horne, professor of Legal History.
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