2013 Anne Phillips: "The Politics of the Human"
2012 Richard Tuck: "The Sleeping Sovereign"
2010 Philip Pettit: "On the People’s Terms: A Republican View of Democracy"
2008 Anthony Appiah: "Matters of Honour: a Moral History of Esteem"
2006 Pierre Rosanvallon: "Counter-Democracy: History and Theory"
2004 Cass Sunstein: "Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle"
2002 Seyla Benhabib: "Citizens, Residents, and Aliens: Membership and Political Theory in a New Era"
2000 Joseph Raz: "Respect for People and the Value of Life"
1998 Martha Nussbaum: "Feminist Internationalism"
1996 Jeremy Waldron: "The Dignity of Legislation"
1994 James Tully: "Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity"