ABA Announces Silver Gavel Awards Winners For 2018 @ABAesq

The American Bar Association has announced the winners of the 2018 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts.

BOOKS

Silver Gavel: Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission, by Barry Friedman.
Honorable Mention: In Praise of Litigation, by Alexandra Lahav.

DOCUMENTARIES
Silver Gavel: And Then They Came for Us, by Ginzberg Productions.
Honorable Mention: They Call Us Monsters, by BMP Films.

DRAMA & LITERATURE
Silver Gavel: Marshall, directed and produced by Reginald Hudlin.

NEWSPAPERS
Silver Gavel: “Death-Penalty Defense Drama at Guantánamo War Court,” featured in the Miami Herald.
Honorable Mention: “Secrecy Rules,” featured in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

RADIO
Silver Gavel: Breakdown Season 6: A Jury of His Peers, by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Honorable Mention: Null and Void, by Radiolab at WNYC.

TELEVISION
Silver Gavel: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, by PBS Distribution, Frontline and ITVS.

The ABA has awarded Silver Gavels every year since 1958. ABA President Hilarie Bass will present the winners and honorable mentions on July 17 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.