Faculty Distinctions and Awards

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) 
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• 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