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Faculty Distinctions and Awards

USC Gould School of Law

Faculty of the USC Gould School of Law have been widely recognized for their achievements in scholarship and teaching and for their contributions to the profession and the public. They are frequently invited to testify before Congress and other bodies and to deliver distinguished lectures at universities, learned societies and national and international meetings. They have also received numerous prizes and been elected to membership in important academies and institutes, including:

American Law Institute

American Bar Foundation

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Medicine (Elected Member)

National Academy of Medicine

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

American Council of Learned Societies

American Council of Learned Societies

Fulbright Scholar

Council for International Exchange of Scholars

  • Daniel Klerman [Fulbright Senior Scholar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2023-24]

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences

Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences

Harvard University Society of Fellows

Harvard University Society of Fellows

Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Rockefeller Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

Stanford Humanities Center

Stanford Humanities Center

Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust

Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust

  • Elyn Saks [Beckman Award, 2018, for a teacher who has inspired former students to create an organization which has demonstrably conferred a benefit on the community at large]
  • Clare Pastore [Beckman Award, 2013, for a teacher who has inspired former students to make a significant contribution to society]

Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

  • Elyn Saks [Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health, 2021, for her pioneering work as a lawyer, therapist, and advocate for the mentally ill]

Mahoney Neuroscience Institute, Harvard Medical School

Mahoney Neuroscience Institute, Harvard Medical School

  • Elyn Saks [David Mahoney Prize, 2021, for significantly increasing public awareness about brain science and disorders of the nervous system]

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American College of Bankruptcy

American College of Bankruptcy

International Academy of Mediators

International Academy of Mediators

Society for Empirical Legal Studies

Society for Empirical Legal Studies

American Association of Law Libraries

American Association of Law Libraries

  • Albert O. Brecht [Hall of Fame, 2013]

American Law Institute

American Law Institute

Association of American Law Schools

Association of American Law Schools

  • Elyn Saks [Law and Mental Disability Distinguished Service Award, 2020]
  • Erin Miller [Future Promise Award from the AALS Section on Jurisprudence, 2023]

American Psychiatric Association

Outstanding Contributions to the LGBT Community (California State Assembly Resolution No 1420)

California State Assembly

  • David Cruz [Outstanding Contributions to the LGBT Community, 2010, Resolution No.1420]
  • Clare Pastore [Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor in California, 2004, Resolution No. 2638]

Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law

Who's Who in America

Who's Who in America

  • Elyn Saks [Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award]

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award

USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching

USC Lifetime Achievement Award

USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching

USC Associates Awards for Creativity in Research and Scholarship

USC Associates Awards for Excellence in Teaching

USC Associates Awards for Excellence in Teaching

  • 2014: Thomas Griffith
  • 1984: Stephen J. Morse
  • 1977: Robert C. Ellickson
  • 1974: Scott Bice
  • 1970: Gary Bellow
  • 1967: Leonard G. Ratner
  • 1962: Victor S. Netterville
  • 1961: G. Richard Wicks

Provost's Award for Mentoring

Provost's Award for Mentoring

USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching

Mellon Mentoring Award

  • 2015: Hannah Garry (Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students)
  • 2013: Martin L. Levine (Special Mentoring Award)
  • 2012: Scott Altman (Faculty Mentoring Faculty)
  • 2011: Ariela Gross (Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students)
  • 2005: Thomas Lyon (Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Students)

William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award

Walter Wolf Award for Defense of Academic Freedom (USC Academic Senate)

Walter Wolf Award for Defense of Academic Freedom (USC Academic Senate)

Distinguished Faculty Service Award (USC Academic Senate)

Distinguished Faculty Service Award (USC Academic Senate)

Book and Article Awards

  • Elyn Saks, for THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: MY JOURNEY THROUGH MADNESS
    • Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of the Year, 2007, Time Magazine
    • National Best Books 2008 Awards, Winner in the Health: Psychology/Mental Health Category, USA Book News Award
    • Advocacy Award, 2007, Mental Health Advocacy Services
    • Best Memoir in Inspirational Category, 2007, Books for a Better Life
    • National Alliance on Mental Illness, Outstanding Media Awards: Literary Award
    • 2008 Ken Book Award, NYC Metro's Kenneth Johnson Memorial Research Library, National Alliance on Mental Illness
    • Jacques Brien Prize, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
    • Mardi Arquette Spirit Award, 2008, Southern California Counseling Center
    • Distinguished Citizen Award, 2008, American College of Psychoanalysts
  • Dan Simon, for IN DOUBT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS
    • Book Award for Authored Book, 2015, American Psychology-Law Society
  • Mugambi Jouet, for "Revolutionary Criminal Punishments: Treason, Mercy, and the American Revolution" (American Journal of Legal History)
    • 2022 Brophy Prize ("most significantly breaks new ground and adds new insights" to the study of U.S. legal history)
  • Lee Epstein (and co-authors), for "Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging"
    • 2022 Lasting Contribution Award, American Political Science Association (APSA) Law and Courts Section
  • Nomi Stolzenberg, for AMERICAN SHTETL: THE MAKING OF KIRYAS JOEL, A HASIDIC VILLAGE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK (with David Myers)
    • Celebrate 350 Award (Best book of 2022 in American Jewish Studies), 72nd National Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book Council
    • Best Books of 2022 So Far, The New Yorker (Oct. 26, 2022)
  • Christopher D. Stone, for WHERE THE LAW ENDS
    • Best Book Award (Social Issues in Management Division), 1992, Academy of Management
  • Robin Craig, for 4°C, 106 Minn. L. Rev. 191 (2021)
    • One of five best articles for 2021-2022, Environmental Law & Policy Annual Review
  • Daniel Klerman, for Was the Jury Ever Self-Informing?, 77 S. Cal. L. Rev 123 (2003)
    • Sutherland Prize (best article in English legal history), 2004, American Society for Legal History
  • Daniel Klerman, for Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England , 19 L. & Hist. Rev. 1 (2001).
    • David Yale Prize (distinguished contribution to the history of the laws and legal institutions of England and Wales), 2001, Selden Society
  • Michael Simkovic, for Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization, 88 Ind. L.J. 213 (2013)
    • Best Professional Article, 2012, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers

Professional Recognition

(Leadership in Scholarly Organizations, etc.)