The 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize Was Given to Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman to their Publication, Of Security and Privacy - The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019). The yearly prize honors exemplary works of scholarship investigating the tension between civil liberties and national security in modern American society. In Of Privacy and Electricity, Farrell and Newman analyze the disputes involving the USA and European Union in regulating privacy and safety, and the way the politics of liberty, security, and surveillance have jeopardized the transatlantic relationship. While the battle between these significant regulatory abilities has traditionally been seen as a state to say, the authors assert that the actual battle involves transnational coalitions of pro-civil liberties and pro-security celebrities.                                                                                                  

These communities of celebrities include security bureaus, inside ministries, solitude NGOs, bureaucrats, and others, that have implemented new approaches into the politics surrounding privacy and safety negotiations.

Farrell is a professor of political science and global affairs at George Washington University and is also the writer of The Political Economy of Trust. Newman is a professor of authorities in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His novels include Voluntary Disruptions and Protectors of Privacy. Farrell and Newman will introduce Of Privacy and Power in Chicago-Kent next year.

The Palmer Prize was set in 2007 by Chicago-Kent alumnus Roy C. Palmer and his wife, Susan M. Palmer. Palmer, a lawyer, and real estate developer was a 1962 honors graduate of Chicago-Kent and also a member of its board of advisers. He obtained the Chicago-Kent Alumni Association's 2012 Distinguished Service Award and has been appointed by the law faculty in 2013 as among"125 Alumni of Distinction." Together with his wife, Susan, Palmer was busy in several civic, social, and philanthropic organizations. He expired in February 2017.

Entries will be accepted through July 1, 2020, for its Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

Launched in 2007 in Chicago-Kent College of Law from the late Roy C. Palmer '62 along with his spouse, Susan M. Palmer, the prize honors a work of scholarship that investigates the tension between civil liberties and national security in modern American culture. The $10,000 prize is intended to promote and reward public discussion among scholars on current issues impacting the rights of people and the duties of authorities across the world.

Articles or publications submitted into the contest has to be in draft form or have been printed within a year before the July 1 deadline. As a condition of accepting the award, the winner will present their job at Chicago-Kent. All reasonable expenses will be compensated. (Obtain a printable copy of the call for entries.)

Eligible publications and articles must be submitted to Tasha Kincade, assistant to Dean Anita K. 

Past recipients of this Palmer Prize comprise:

Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman for Of Security and Privacy --The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019)

Timothy H. 

Jennifer Lisa Granick to get American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Laura K. 

Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum for Your Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones--Confronting a New Age of Threat (Basic Books 2015)

Ganesh Sitaraman for Your Counterinsurgent's Constitution: Law in the Time of Little Wars (Oxford University Press 2012)

Susan N. 

Laura A. Dickinson for Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a Universe of Privatized Foreign Affairs (Yale University Press 2011)

Gabriella Blum and Philip B. 

Scott M. Matheson Jr. for Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times (Harvard University Press 2009)

Harold H. Bruff for Bad Advice: Bush's Attorneys at the War on Terror (University Press of Kansas 2009)

David D. Cole and Jules L. 

Benefactor Roy Palmer, a lawyer, and real estate developer was a 1962 honors graduate of Chicago-Kent and also a member of its board of advisers. Palmer obtained the Chicago-Kent Alumni Association's 2012 Distinguished Service Award and has been appointed by the law faculty in 2013 as among"125 Alumni of Distinction." Together with his wife, Susan, he had been active in several civic, social, and philanthropic organizations. Palmer expired in February 2017.

Launched in 2007, the Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. 

2019

Of Electricity and Privacy --The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019), by Henry Farrell, professor of political science and global affairs at George Washington University, and Abraham L. Newman, professor of authorities from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

2018

Past Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA (Brookings Institution Press 2017), by Timothy H. 

2016

American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It (Cambridge University Press, coming 2017), by Jennifer Lisa Granick, director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society

2012

Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy (Oxford University Press 2011), by Brooklyn Law School professor and nationwide ACLU president Susan N. Herman

2011

Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a Universe of Privatized Foreign Affairs (Yale University Press 2011), by George Washington University Law School professor Laura A. Dickinson

2008

Bad Advice: Bush's Attorneys at the War on Terror (University Press of Kansas 2009), by University of Colorado Law School professor Harold H. Bruff

2007

Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (The New Press 2007), from Georgetown University law professor David D. 

We are living in an interconnected world where safety issues like offenses are spilling across boundaries, and globalized information networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world market. It follows that states' authorities and principle systems struggle. How have they negotiated their differences in freedom and safety? Security and Privacy investigate the way the European Union and the United States, both important regulatory systems on world politics, have controlled privacy and safety, and the way their arrangements and disputes have jeopardized the transatlantic relationship.

The actual challenge was between two multinational coalitions--just one favoring safety, another freedom --whose battles have jeopardized the politics of surveillance, e-commerce, and privacy rights. Considering three big safety arguments in the period because 9/11, between Passenger Name Record information, the SWIFT financial messaging controversy, and Edward Snowden's revelations, the authors analyze the way the forces of border-spanning coalitions have waxed and waned. Globalization has empowered new approaches of actions, which safety agencies, inside ministries, solitude NGOs, bureaucrats, along with other celebrities exploit as conditions dictate.

The transatlantic battle over liberty and safety has been depicted as a struggle involving a peace-loving European Union along with also the belligerent United States. Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman show this misses the point.                                                                                                

The first serious analysis of the way the politics of surveillance was changed, Of Privacy and Electricity provides a new perspective of the function of data and energy in a world of financial interdependence.