Recently we were asking if legal historians were all the best historians these days, judging by the prizes they are bringing home.
There's another one:
Congratulations to C. Elizabeth Koester, winner of the Chalmers Prize, awarded to the best book in Ontario History by the Champlain Society. Note that Liz, a retired lawyer, is usually billed as a historian of medical and scientific history but is really a legal historian! In the Public Good: Eugenics and the Law in Ontario is published by Queens McGill UP.