Faculty Awards
The Legal Studies program features strong faculty members who encourage their students' curiosity and help them to understand the law from various viewpoints. Faculty awards include:
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Professor Daniel Breen: 2017 Louis D. Brandeis Award for Excellence in Teaching - for an individual for his or her outstanding teaching
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Professor Richard Gaskins: 2011 Lerman-Neubauer ’69 Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring
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Professors Sarah Curi and Alice Noble: The summer Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) Health, Law and Justice program, an intensive, immersive, interdisciplinary program co-taught by Professors Sarah Curi and Alice Noble, was honored with a Creative and Innovative Award at the 2018 North American Association of Summer Sessions convention in Portland, Oregon.
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Professor Rosalind Kabrhel: Co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, which launched in 2020 with the help of a Connected PhD grant from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. The BEJI connects all Brandeisians with opportunities to provide educational services to individuals and communities impacted by incarceration.
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Professor Doug Smith: In 2019, Prof. Smith was honored with an Innovation and Excellence in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Teaching from the International Consortium on Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs (CULJP). His clinical course on Immigration & Human Rights Advocacy was recognized as truly innovative, experiential, and with a strong public-facing outreach component in addressing deficiencies in the availability of legal services to marginalized immigrant communities and the organizations that advocate on their behalf.
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Professor Melissa Stimell: Academic Program Director of ENACT, The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation, was awarded a three-year $325,000 grant in 2019 by The Teagle Foundation's Education for American Civic Life Initiative to expand its program to all 50 states and to enhance its digital platform.