The Bruce K. Gould Book Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding publication related to the law, legal profession or legal system. The award is named for its benefactor Bruce K. Gould, an alumnus of Touro Law Center, class of 1984. Mr. Gould was a principal in Gould Publications, a family-owned publishing company in Florida specializing in law books and treatises for legal and law enforcement communities. The business was started in 1953 by Mr. Gould’s father and mother and over the years has grown to be one of the leading statutory law book publishers in the country until the publishing assets were acquired in December 2004. Mr. Gould is a founding member and second president of Touro Law Center’s Alumni Association, an active member of Touro Law Center’s Board of Governors, was Chairman of the Law Center’s Capital Campaign Committee and in 1994, endowed the Law Center’s First Faculty Chair.

The award has become known as one of the most prestigious awards of its kind. Since 1993, it has been presented to many notable recipients.

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Previous Bruce K. Gould Book Award Recipients: 2022 Senator Joseph Lieberman, The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make it Work Again     2021 Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age     2020 Thane Rosenbaum, Saving Free Speech...from Itself     2019 John Grisham,  The Rooster Bar     2018 Bret Stephens,  American in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder     2015 Michael B. Oren,  Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide     2013 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World     2011 Charles Fried & Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong     2010 Kenneth Gormley, The Death of American Virtue: Clinton Vs. Starr     2009 Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006 - 2008     2008 Christopher J. Dodd, Letters from Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice     2005 David Boies, Esq., Courting Justice:  From NY Yankees v. Major League Baseball to Bush v. Gore 1997-2000     2004 Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice     2003 Stuart Eizenstat, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II     2002 Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Vernon Can Read! A Memoir     2001 Alan M. Dershowitz, The Genesis of Justice, Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law     2000 Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted     1999 Kenneth Gormley, Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation     1998 Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power     1997 Robert L. Shapiro, The Search for Justice, A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case     1996 The Honorable Marvin E. Frankel, Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America     1995 Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution     1994 David Margolick, Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune     1993 Telford Taylor, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials     1992 Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor     1991 The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan, On the Law of Nations     1991 Mordecai Rosenfeld, The Lament of the Single Practitioner-Essays on the Law