The Strauss Center and Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law are excited to announce that Jennifer C. Daskal, Professor at the American University Washington College of Law, is the winner of the 2019 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship for her article “Speech Across Borders.”
For her outstanding work advancing the study of national security law, Professor Daskal is awarded $1000, thanks to generous donations to the Mike Lewis Prize Fund (please see the Mike Lewis Prize page here for more information on donating to the fund and the nomination process).
The Mike Lewis Prize was established in 2017 by the Strauss Center and Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law (ONU), in consultation with the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on National Security Law. The prize honors Professor Mike Lewis of ONU, a much-loved colleague and prolific scholar who passed away in 2015.
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