A special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (110:2, Spring 2011), titled "Sovereignty, Indigeneity and the Law," co-edited by Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters in the Department of English at Cornell, has won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the best special issue of the year.

Preceding the issue and in conjunction with it, the American Indian Program at Cornell held a conference in October 2010 in which the contributors to the issue, who came from across the globe, presented versions of the papers to be published. "The two-day conference was a major success in terms of both attendance and feedback from those who attended," said Cheyvitz.

The special issue was also co-edited by Bruce Duthu of Dartmouth University and Shari Huhndorf of the University of California-Berkeley.