SLS Students and Faculty Honored with Awards, Fellowships

August 22, 2024
By
- Monica Schreiber

During the 2023-24 academic year, Stanford Law School (SLS) faculty members garnered an array of awards for their books, articles, teaching, mentorship, and other achievements. Similarly, numerous SLS students were the recipients of awards and fellowships for their own achievements and demonstrations of academic excellence.

The following is a roundup of awards received from the start of the academic year through August 2024.

Faculty Awards

Leading International Human Rights and Migration Law Scholar Joins Stanford Law School — E. Tendayi Achiume

**MacArthur Fellowship** (aka “Genius Grant”), awarded annually to “extraordinarily creative individuals with a track record of excellence.”

**Member of the Institute for Advanced Study** for the 2024–25 academic year. The fellowship offers an opportunity to advance research and exchange ideas with scholars from around the world.

Gregory Ablavsky, Professor of Law — Gregory Ablavsky

**Legal History Article of the Year** from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation for his article *Getting Public Rights Wrong: The Lost History of the Private Land Claims*.

Rabia Belt 2 — Rabia Belt

**Inspiring Early Academic Career Award** from Stanford University’s Faculty Women’s Forum for an assistant professor who “fosters inclusion and belonging for students and trainees.”

Three Leading Scholars Join Stanford Law School Faculty — Evelyn Douek

SLS’s **Hurlbut Award** for a professor who “strives to make teaching an art.”

Deborah Hensler

**Excellence in Ethics in Complex Litigation Award** at the second annual Complex Litigation Ethics Conference for “excellence in promoting ethics in class actions or other complex litigation.”

Daniel E. Ho 4 — Daniel Ho

Inducted into the **American Academy of Arts & Sciences**.

**Best Paper Award** at the Sixth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society for *The Bureaucratic Challenge to AI Governance: An Empirical Assessment of Implementation at U.S. Federal Agencies*.

**Best Paper** award at the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency for *The Privacy-Bias Tradeoff: Data Minimization and Racial Disparity Assessments in U.S. Government*.

**Outstanding Paper Award** at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for his co-authored article *MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus*.

Dark Accounting Matter — Colleen Honigsberg

**Order of the Coif’s Lolly Gasaway Faculty-Student Writing Award** “for exceptional scholarship authored collaboratively by a student and faculty member” for the paper *Regulatory Arbitrage and the Persistence of Financial Misconduct*.

Mark A. Lemley — Mark Lemley

**2024 Mark T. Banner Award** from the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law for “stars of intellectual property law who have risen to the top of the profession."

**2023 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award** from the American Antitrust Institute for his article *Atomistic Antitrust*.

Curtis J. Milhaupt — Curtis Milhaupt

Named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and received a **Best Paper Award** from the ECGI for *The (Geo)Politics of Controlling Shareholders*.

Shirin Sinnar 1 — Shirin Sinnar

**Outstanding Mentor Award** from Stanford University’s Faculty Women’s Forum for a faculty member “who has consistently created opportunities for the academic advancement of women at Stanford.”

Mila Sohoni

Reappointed to a second term as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Student Awards and Fellowships

Christie Lawrence, JD ’24, and Isaac Cui, JD ’25

Best Paper Award at the Sixth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society for The Bureaucratic Challenge to AI Governance: An Empirical Assessment of Implementation at U.S. Federal Agencies (with Dan Ho)

Salma Abdelrahman, JD ’25

SLS’s Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award, awarded to “a student from each class who has made outstanding contributions to enhancing the Stanford Law School community.”

Seán Ramon Arrieta-Kenna, JD ’25

Susman Godfrey Prize, awarded to 20 law students of color nationwide who are finishing their 1L or 2L year.

Rebecca Berman, JD '25

Justice Stevens Fellowship, which "provides grants to enable law students at participating law schools to work in unpaid public interest summer law positions."

Sara Bobok, JD ’26

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which provides merit-based funding for new Americans, immigrants and children of immigrants who are poised to make significant contributions to US culture, society and academia.”

Gabrielle Braxton, JD ’25

Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Award from the California Supreme Court Historical Society for her paper Guess Who’s Coming to Stanford? The Battle for Desegregation of an Elite Law School.

Ben Clark, JD/MS ’24

Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award, awarded annually for “outstanding non-scholarly public service during law school.”

Lauren Courtney, JD ’24

Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award, awarded annually for “outstanding non-scholarly public service during law school.”

Janka Deli, JSM '19 (JSD '24)

2023 Theodore Eisenberg Poster Prize at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies for “How Much Does the Rule of Law Matter for International Trade?”

Emma Dougherty, JD '25

Justice Stevens Fellowship: The fellowship program “provides grants to enable law students at participating law schools to work in unpaid public interest summer law positions.”

Victoria Fang, JD ’24

2024 Jan Jancin Award, awarded to a law student who has “excelled in the study of intellectual property law.”

Kelsea Jeon, JD ’25

Susman Godfrey Prize, awarded to 20 law students of color nationwide who are finishing their 1L or 2L year.

Selene Kung, JD ’26

Justice Stevens Fellowship, which “provides grants to enable law students at participating law schools to work in unpaid public interest summer law positions.”

Donya Nasser, JD ’26

SLS’s Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award, awarded to “a student from each class who has made outstanding contributions to enhancing the Stanford Law School community.”

Peter O’Neill, JD ‘24

Daniel S. Goodman Prize for his paper Younger and the Youth: The Younger Abstention Doctrine in the Child-Welfare Context, awarded to a 3L student who has demonstrated exceptional legal ability through written work published in the Stanford Law Review.

Yufei Peng, JSM '24 Law, JSD '27

Carl Mason Franklin Prize in International Law, for The Tale of Two Cities: Corporate Social Responsibility with Chinese Characteristics and Within International Law, an SLS award recognizing distinguished written work in the area of international law.

Shafeen Pittal, JD ’24

SLS’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service awarded to a student who has made “distinctive and exceptional contributions to legal education or the quality of student life at SLS.”

Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award awarded annually for “outstanding non-scholarly public service during law school.”

Lisa Qian, JD ’26

Susman Godfrey Prize, awarded to 20 law students of color nationwide who are finishing their 1L or 2L year.

Ling Ritter, JD ’24

Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law (American Constitution Society) for her paper Elephants in Mouseholes: The Major Questions Doctrine in the Lower Courts.

Ariel Salmon, JD ’26

SLS’s Lisa M. Schnitzer Memorial Scholarship, which “recognizes a public interest student completing the first year in law school who will spend the summer working for a public interest/public sector employer, a charitable organization, or another nonprofit organization working in the public interest.”

Heloísa Zerbinatti Sato, LLM '24

Murie, Olaus & Adolph Award, Environmental Law, Second Place, for Market design and public policy for Battery Energy Storage System penetration: Case study Brazil, an SLS award recognizing distinguished written work in the area of environmental law.

Luke Schumacher, JD ’25

SLS Legal History Paper Prize for his paper “A Council of Grand Strategists: The Original Hope, Fear, and Intent of the U.S. Senate in Foreign Affairs.”

Stefan Suazo, JD ’24

SLS’s Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award, awarded to “a student from each class who has made outstanding contributions to enhancing the Stanford Law School community.”

Marie Wako, JSD ’26

SLS’s Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award, awarded to “a student from each class who has made outstanding contributions to enhancing the Stanford Law School community.”

Sarah Wishingrad, JD ’25

Justice Stevens Fellowship, which “provides grants to enable law students at participating law schools to work in unpaid public interest summer law positions.”

Victor Wu, JD '25

Best Paper award at the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) for The Privacy-Bias Tradeoff: Data Minimization and Racial Disparity Assessments in U.S. Government (with Dan Ho and others) (also selected for a Student Paper Award by The Future of Privacy Forum)

Murie, Olaus & Adolph Award, Environmental Law, First Place, for his paper Watering Down Justice: Inadequate Criminal Liability in State Clean Water Act Programs, an SLS award recognizing distinguished written work in the area of environmental law.