Faculty Distinctions and Awards
USC Gould School of Law

American Law Institute (Elected Members)

American Bar Foundation

Phi Kappa Phi (Faculty Inductees)

• Scott H. Bice
• Rebecca Brown
• Alexander M. Capron
• Marshall Cohen
• David Cruz
• Susan Estrich
• Edward Finegan
• Ronald Garet
• Martin L. Levine
• Thomas D. Lyon
• Elyn R. Saks

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Gary Watson [Member, elected 2014]

National Academy of Medicine

• Alexander M. Capron [Member, elected 1981]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

• Elyn R. Saks [MacArthur Fellow, "Genius Grant", 2009]

American Council of Learned Societies

• Ariela J. Gross [Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2017-18]
• Ariela J. Gross [Frederick J. Burkhardt Fellowship, 2003-04]
• Hilary Schor [Summer Research Fellowship, 1989]

Carnegie Corporation of New York

• Emily Ryo [Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2017-19]

Council for International Exchange of Scholars

• Hannah Garry [Fulbright Research Scholar, University of Oslo Law, Norway, 2021-22]

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

• Ariela J. Gross [Guggenheim Fellow, 2003]
• Hilary Schor [Guggenheim Fellow, 2001]
• Marshall Cohen [Guggenheim Fellow, 1976]

National Endowment for the Humanities

• Ariela J. Gross [Long-Term Fellowship, 2003-04]
• Hilary Schor [Fellowship, 2023-24]

Organization of American Historians

• Ariela J. Gross [Distinguished Lecturer, 2010-16]

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

• Dan Simon [2018-19]
• Marshall Cohen [1975-76]

Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences

• Dan Simon [Fellow, 2018-19]
• Ariela Gross [Fellow, 2017-18]

Harvard University Society of Fellows

• Marshall Cohen [Junior Fellow, 1955-58]

Institute for Advanced Study

• Marshall Cohen [Member, 1981-82]

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

• Ariela J. Gross [Fellow, 2021-22]
• Hilary Schor [Fellow, 2012-2013]

Rockefeller Foundation

• Marshall Cohen [Humanities Fellow, 1977]

Stanford Humanities Center

• Hilary Schor [Fellow, 1994-95]

The Justice Collaborative Institute

• Emily Ryo [Inaugural Fellow, 2020]

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]

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

• 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

• Alexander M. Capron [Fellow]

American College of Bankruptcy

• Robert K. Rasmussen [Fellow]

International Academy of Mediators

• Lisa Klerman [Distinguished Fellow, 2020]

Society of American Historians

• Ariela Gross [Fellow]

Society for Empirical Legal Studies

• Daniel Klerman [Fellow]

American Association of Law Libraries

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

American Bar Foundation

• Emily Ryo [JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholar, 2020]

American Law Institute

• Michael Simkovic [Early Career Scholars Medal, 2015]

Association of American Law Schools

• Elyn Saks [Law and Mental Disability Distinguished Service Award, 2020]

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]

Who's Who in America

• Elyn R. Saks [Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award]

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award

USC Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2022: Scott Bice
• 2020: Ronald Garet
• 2014: Christopher D. Stone
• 2009: Marshall Cohen
• 2007: W. David Slawson
• 1995: Louis M. Brown
• 1988: Leonard G. Ratner
• 1987: Orrin B. Evans

USC Associates Awards for Creativity in Research and Scholarship

• 2009: Edward J. McCaffery
• 2004: Elyn R. Saks
• 1980: Christopher D. Stone

USC Associates Awards for Excellence in Teaching

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

Provost's Award for Mentoring

• 2014: Thomas Lyon

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

• 2021: Emily Ryo
• 2020: Clare Pastore
• 2019: Scott Altman
• 2018: Robert K. Rasmussen
• 2017: Ariela Gross
• 2016: Michael Chasalow
• 2015: Donald Scotten
• 2014: Thomas Lyon
• 2013: Rebecca Brown
• 2012: Stephen M. Rich
• 2011: Christopher D. Stone
• 2010: Ronald Garet
• 2009: Thomas Griffith
• 2008: Charles Whitebread
• 2007: Scott Bice

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

• 2021: Jody Armour
• 2018: Ronald Garet
• 2016: Alexander M. Capron

Distinguished Faculty Service Award (USC Academic Senate)

• 2017: Jody Armour
• 2017: Rebecca Lonergan
• 2014: Martin Levine
• 2012: Alexander M. Capron
• 2008: Ronald Garet

Book and Article Awards

• Ariela J. Gross, for BECOMING FREE, BECOMING BLACK: RACE, FREEDOM, AND LAW IN CUBA, VIRGINIA, AND LOUISIANA (with Alejandro de la Fuente)

  • John Philip Reid Book Award, 2021, American Society for Legal History
  • Annual Book Award (for a book published in 2020), Order of the Coif

• Ariela J. Gross, for WHAT BLOOD WON'T TELL: A HISTORY OF RACE ON TRIAL IN AMERICA

  • James Willard Hurst, Jr. Prize (best book in sociolegal history), 2009, Law and Society Association
  • Prize for Best Book on Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 2009, American Political Science Association
  • Lillian Smith Book Award, 2009, Southern Regional Council, University of Georgia Libraries and the DeKalb County Public Library/Georgia Center for the Book
  • CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2009

• Elyn R. 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
    
  
  

• 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 Kundis 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.)

• American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
  
  • Alexander M. Capron [President, 1988-89]
• International Association of Bioethics
  
  • Alexander M. Capron [President, 2005-07]
• Society for Empirical Legal Studies
  
  • Daniel Klerman [Co-President, 2008-09]