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:

• Professor Daniel Breen: 2017 Louis D. Brandeis Award for Excellence in Teaching - for an individual for his or her outstanding teaching

• Professor Richard Gaskins: 2011 Lerman-Neubauer ’69 Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

• 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.  Read more about this award and the student testimonials that were integral to this award .

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.