SLS Students and Faculty Honored with Awards, Fellowships

Stanford Law School's Neukom tower and Crocker Garden in the afternoon

During the 2024-25 academic year, Stanford Law School faculty members and academic staff garnered an array of awards for their books, articles, teaching, and other achievements, as well as appointments to new state, federal, and other roles outside Stanford Law. 

Similarly, numerous Stanford Law students were the recipients of awards and fellowships for their own achievements, demonstrations of academic excellence, and commitment to public service. The following is a round-up of the recognitions as of August 30, 2025. Also reported here are a handful of student awards and fellowships handed out during the 2024-25 academic year to people who graduated from Stanford Law over the past few years.

Faculty and Academic Staff Awards

Easha Anand

Easha Anand

Ranked Among Top SCOTUS Advocates by Legalytics.
Jud Campbell: Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Illuminating the law through the lens of history Faculty Scholar

Jud Campbell

2025 Joseph Story Award from the Federalist Society for a junior academic who has “demonstrated excellence in legal scholarship, a commitment to teaching, a concern for students, and who has made a significant public impact in a manner that advances the rule of law in a free society.”
Lisa Douglass 1

Lisa Douglass

Pro Bono Honor Roll award from the AALS Section on Pro Bono.
David Freeman Engstrom 1

David Freeman Engstrom

Re-appointed a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Nora Freeman Engstrom 4

Nora Freeman Engstrom

2025 Prosser Award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, recognizing lifetime contributions to scholarship, teaching and service in the field of tort law.

Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Ethics in Complex Litigation from the Complex Litigation Ethics Conference.

Honorable mention from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Professional Responsibility for co-authored Yale Law Review feature, “Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis.”

Appointed to California's Judicial Council’s Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions (term begins September 15, 2025).
Joanna Grossman

Joanna Grossman (visiting professor)

Stanford Law School’s Public Interest Faculty Champion award.
Daniel Ho

Daniel Ho

SafeBench Prize for Cybench, a first-of-its-kind framework for specifying cybersecurity tasks and evaluating AI agents on those tasks (along with Andy Zhang, JD ’26 and RegLab team).

Outstanding Paper Award at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for co-authored article “MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus.”
Pamela S. Karlan

Pamela Karlan

Stanford Law School’s Hurlbut Award for a professor who “strives to make teaching an art.”
Mark A. Lemley

Mark Lemley

Stanford Faculty Women’s Forum Outstanding Mentor Award, recognizing an individual who “promotes and sponsors Stanford women students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and/or faculty for opportunities and advancement.”

Honorable mention from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Scholarship for Excellence in Mentoring and Supporting Legal Scholarship.
Message from the New Director

Grande Lum

2025 D'Alemberte-Raven Award, the highest honor given by the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section, honoring “an individual or an organization that has contributed significantly to the dispute resolution field.”
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power and the Constitution

Michael McConnell

2025 Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty, awarded to one person each year for his or her achievements in preserving religious liberty.
Michelle M. Mello

Michelle Mello

Stanford Law School’s 2024 Barbara Allen Babcock Award for Excellence in Teaching, given to instructors who teach first-year courses and who promote “inclusion of learning, intellectual rigor and commitment to the highest standards of professional integrity, mentorship and service.”
Elizabeth A. Reese

Elizabeth Reese

Stanford Faculty Women’s Forum’s Inspiring Early Academic Career Award, recognizing an early-career faculty or staff member who “creates a culture of inclusion and belonging for students and trainees at all levels.”
Mila Sohoni 1

Mila Sohoni

Elected to the American Law Institute.

Re-appointed a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Professor of Health Policy and of Law David Studdert Named Stanford Vice Provost and Dean of Research 2

David Studdert

Elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Student Awards and Fellowships

Graham Ambrose, JD ’24

Everytown Law Fund Law Student Writing Competition, recognizing “original research and writing on how to advance gun violence prevention and gun safety through litigation in the civil and criminal justice systems.”

Adil Auraghi, LLM ’25

Stanford Law School Judicial Fellowship at the International Court of Justice (2025-2026).

Marty Berger, JD ’23

Skadden Fellowship at ACLU of Michigan.

Rebecca Berman, JD ’25

Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award, recognizing graduating students who have made outstanding contributions to underrepresented groups or public interest causes outside the law school and/or in public service at the law school.

Delaina Castillo, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Deane F. Johnson Public Interest Fellowship to work with Communities for a Better Environment.

Issac Cui, JD ’25

Stanford Law’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.”

Pro Bono Honor Roll award from the AALS Section on Pro Bono

Hannah Fleischmann, JD ’25

Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award, recognizing graduating students who have made outstanding contributions to underrepresented groups or public interest causes outside the law school and/or in public service at the law school.

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with Pregnancy Justice.

Carly Frieders, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with non-profit law firm Phillips Black.

Kaisa Goodman, JD ’26

American Constitution Society Next Generation Leader, recognizing law students “who have shown exceptional leadership.

Gabrielle Marie Harder, JD ’27

Justice John Paul Stevens Fellowship

David Jaffe, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with ranking member Jamie Raskin’s oversight team on the House Judiciary Committee.

Baird Johnson, JD ’27

Stanford Law Legal History Paper Prize for “Melancton Smith’s Role in the Ratification Debates: The Authorship of Brutus and the Federal Farmer Examined.”

Ayan Kent, JD ’27

Stanford Law’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.”

Harith Khawaja, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with the Constitutional Accountability Center.

Chloe Kimball, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Civitas Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with Brooklyn Defender Services.

Sofia Kimball, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Deane F. Johnson Public Interest Fellowship to work with the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center.

Zachary Aaron Kimmel, JD ’27

Justice John Paul Stevens Fellowship

Jen Lee, JD ’26

American Constitution Society Next Generation Leader, recognizing law students “who have shown exceptional leadership.”

Shannon Lee, JD ’25

Skadden Fellowship to New York Legal Assistance Group.

Jacqueline Lewittes, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Fellowship to work with the MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program.

Zehua Li, JD ’26

Justice John Paul Stevens Fellowship

Delia Appiah Mensah, JD ’26

Stanford Law’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.”

Rodrigo Moreno, JD ’27

Stanford Law’s Lisa M. Schnitzer Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually to a first-year student who has demonstrated a strong commitment to helping the disadvantaged and who will work for a nonprofit organization or government agency during the summer following the first year.

Dorna Maryam Movasseghi, JD ’25

Stanford Law School International Postgraduate Fellowship to work with Legal Action Worldwide.

Sky Park, JD ’27

Susman Godfrey Prize for “law students of color who embody values of integrity, leadership, and academic excellence.

Frishta Qaderi, JD ’26

First place, Stanford Law School’s Murie, Olaus & Adolph Award for Environmental Law for the paper "Toxic Accountability: Tort Law, Transboundary Pollution, and the Failure of Environmental Governance in the Tijuana River Crisis.”

Lisa Qian, JD ’26

MoloLamken LLP Advocacy Academy, a merit-based program “for students with distinguished law school records to receive extraordinary real-world training.”

Leo Rassieur, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to represent the District of Columbia before the D.C. Circuit and D.C. Court of Appeals as part of the Office of the Solicitor General for the District of Columbia.

Michelle Shim, JD ’25

Co-winner of Stanford Law School’s Carl Mason Franklin Prize in International Law for "Killer Code: Navigating the Legal and Ethical Frontier of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Modern Conflict."

Lillian Siegel, JD ’23

Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work with Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project.

Amanpreet Singh, JD ’25

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

Deborah L. Rhode Public Interest Award, recognizing graduating students who have made outstanding contributions to underrepresented groups or public interest causes outside the law school and/or in public service at the law school.

Nishtha Sinha, LLM ’25

Stanford Law School International Postgraduate Fellowship to work with Climate Litigation Lab.

Ross Snyder, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with Democracy Forward.

Carlos Tamayo, LLM ’25

Stanford Law School’s Richard S. Goldsmith Award for "Arbitrating Access: The Role of Investment Arbitration in Patent Compulsory Licensing Governance - Columbia as a case of study."

Eli Tannenwald, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work in the Research Unit at the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office.

Yapa Thepkanjana, LLM ’25

Stanford Law’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.”

David Toppelberg, JD ’25

Stanford Law School’s Rudolf and Bernice Moos Fellowship to work with UNITE HERE Local 11.

Marit Vike, JD ’25

Stanford Law Review’s Jay M. Spears Law Award

Garrett Walker, JD ’25

Co-winner of Stanford Law School’s Carl Mason Franklin Prize in International Law for "A Fretful Realm in Awe: Governance Frameworks for an AI-Assisted World."

Madeline Walsh, JD ’23

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.

Jessica Wang, JD ’26

Susman Godfrey Prize for “law students of color who embody values of integrity, leadership, and academic excellence.”

Sarah Wishingrad, JD ’25

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with non-profit law firm Phillips Black.

Victor Wu, JD ’25

Second place, Stanford Law School’s Murie, Olaus & Adolph Award for Environmental Law for the paper “Deregulation by Disaster: Emergency Exemptions of Environmental Law.”

Vanessa Young Viniegra, JD ’23

Stanford Law School Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship to work with Public Counsel’s impact litigation team, Opportunity Under Law.

Brian Xu, JD ’26

Susman Godfrey Prize for “law students of color who embody values of integrity, leadership, and academic excellence.”

Andy Zhang, JD ’26

SafeBench Prize for Cybench, a first-of-its-kind framework for specifying cybersecurity tasks and evaluating AI agents on those tasks (along with Dan Ho and RegLab team).

Natalia Cristine Zorrilla, JD ’26

Justice John Paul Stevens Fellowship