Warren E. Burger Prize
Recipients and Winning Essays
2026
The Moral Gaps in Legal Machines
By Professor Keith Swisher
2025
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers’ Disclosure Duties
By Professor Gilat J. Bachar
2024
Prize not awarded.
2023
Civility Rules: Debunking the Major Myths Surrounding Mandatory Civility for Lawyers and Five Mandatory Civility Rules that will Work [PDF]
By Professor David A. Grenardo
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Volume 37, Issue 2
2022
All Lawyers Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal than Others: Incivility Towards Female Attorneys from Within the Legal Profession [PDF]
By Amelia Clegg, Esq.
2021
Diversity as Professionalism [PDF]
By Professor Davis G. Yee
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 73, Book 4
2020
Disruptive Legal Technology, COVID-19, and Resilience in the Profession [PDF]
By Christopher A. Suarez, Esq.
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 72 : 393
2019
Lawyer Wellbeing as a Crisis of the Profession [PDF]
By Judge Cheryl Ann Krause and Jane Chong
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 71: 203
2018
Two Approaches to the Modern Reality of Temporary Cross-Border Legal Practice: The United States and the European Community
By Jonathan B. Brown
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 70
2017
The Professional Responsibility of Fair Play When Dealing with a Pro Se Adversary [PDF]
By Professor Davis G. Yee
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 69, Book 2
2016
Negotiating on Behalf of Low-Income Clients: The Distorting Effects of Model Rule 4.1 [docx]
By Megan McDermott
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 68, Book 1
2015
Revisiting Antigone's Dilemma: Why the Model Rules of Professional Conduct Need to be Model Presumptions that can be Rebutted by Acts of Ethical Discretion [docx]
By Gurney F. Pearsall III
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 67, Book 1
2014
Deflating Autonomy [doc]
By Charles Mendez
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 66, Book 2
2013
In the Aftermath: Responsibility and Professionalism in the Wake of Disaster [pdf]
By Matthew P. Crouch, Esq.
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 65, Book 2
2012
The Original Meaning of Civility: Democratic Deliberation at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention [pdf]
By Derek A. Webb
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 64, Book 1
2011
The Unprofessional Sides of Social Media and Social Networking: How Current Standards Fall Short [pdf]
By Christina Skinner
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 63, Book 2
2010
The Ethic of High Expectations [pdf]
By Jean Galbraith
South Carolina Law Review, Volume 62