2025

Iman Anabtawi
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching

Kimberlé Crenshaw
Justice & Impact Award, National Bar Association
Presidential Award, Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Sojourner Truth Award, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Blake Emerson
Early Career Scholars Medal, American Law Institute

Stephen Gardbaum
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Daniel Lowenstein
John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy, Association of American Law Schools, Election Law Section

Mark McKenna
Vanguard Award, California Lawyers Association

Nina Rabin
Pro Bono Honor Roll, Association of American Law Schools

Angela Riley
Early Career Scholarship Award, Association of American Law Schools, Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section

Lauren van Schilfgaarde
Mentoring in the Legal Academy Award, Association of American Law Schools, Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section

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2024

Ahilan Arulanantham
Distinguished Alumni Award, Equal Justice Works

Gary Blasi
UCLA Public Impact Research Award

Kimberlé Crenshaw
W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Scott Cummings
Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility, Association of American Law Schools

Ingrid Eagly
Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program

Cheryl Harris
UCLA Faculty Award for Career Commitment to Diversity

Rick Hasen
David W. Peck Senior Medal for Eminence in the Law, Wabash College

Russell Korobkin
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA School of Law

Aaron Littman
Hellman Fellowship, University of California

Hiroshi Motomura
Bellagio Center Residency Program Invitation, Rockefeller Foundation

Nina Rabin
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Peter Reich
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Angela Riley
Best Article in Intellectual Property for 2023, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s McCarthy Institute and Center for Law, Science and Innovation

Joanna Schwartz
Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association

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2023

E. Tendayi Achiume
MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Scott Cummings
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Sharon Dolovich
UCLA Public Impact Research Award

Carole Goldberg
Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award, University of California

Jill Horwitz
Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award, American Bar Association, Business Law Section

Aaron Littman
UCLA Public Impact Research Award

Grace Meng
Pro Bono Services Award, Legal Services Corporation

Victor Narro
Excellence in Community Service Award, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Eileen Scallen
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA School of Law

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2022

Aslı Ü. Bâli
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA School of Law

Justin Bernstein
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Blake Emerson
Emerging Scholar Award, Association of American Law Schools, Administrative Law Section

Laura E. Gómez
Clyde Ferguson Award, Association of American Law Schools, Minority Groups Section

Cheryl Harris
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Aaron Littman
Criminal Justice Junior Scholar Award, Association of American Law Schools, Criminal Justice Section

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2021

Khaled Abou El Fadl
Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion, American Academy of Religion

Kimberlé Crenshaw
AALS Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Association of American Law Schools

Sharon Dolovich
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, with an additional citation for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level

Laura E. Gómez
Outstanding Scholar Award, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation

Timothy Malloy
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA School of Law

Hiroshi Motomura
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA School of Law

Adam Winkler
Visiting Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa

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2020

E. Tendayi Achiume
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Sameer Ashar
Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award, Association of American Law Schools, Clinical Section

Kimberlé Crenshaw
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of American Law Schools, Section on Women in Legal Education

Scott Cummings
Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy

Herbert Morris
Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award

Brad Sears
Golden State Equality Community Leadership Award, Equality California