JSP Faculty Achievements: This was a banner year for our faculty, staff, and alumni. To name just a few of the laurels they garnered: in June, Dhammika Dharmapala was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the American Law & Economics Association (meaning he will be President in 2027). Last June, the Law & Society Association awarded Chris Tomlins its 2023 Harry Kalven Prize. Sarah Song was quoted extensively in the New Yorker, while Osagie Obasogie launched a two-year project with the LA Review of Books on legacies of eugenics. JSP Affiliated Professor Marianne Constable was awarded the LSA’s Stan Wheeler Mentorship Prize for 2024. I won the Merle Curti Social History Award and the Ellis W. Hawley Award from the Organization of American Historians; the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History; and the LSA Hurst Prize. Our alumni continue to do us proud: Kaaryn Gustafson (JSP ’04) won the 2024 LSA Ronald Pipkin Service Award; Lynette Chua (JSP ’11) won LSA’s 2024 International Prize; and Tobias Smith (JSP ’20) was selected for the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Not one, but two of our Legal Studies Lecturers were honored for their outstanding teaching: the 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Excellence in Teaching Award went to Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, and Kristen Holmquist won a 2024 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. A special shout-out to our GSAO Michael Paz, who, less than a year after arriving at Berkeley, was selected for the Graduate Division’s Train the Trainer (TTT) program, to help roll out the new multi-year funding platform, and for the campus-wide GSAO Coordinating Committee—two stellar recognitions that will also help JSP navigate new campus rules and systems. And from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Lauri La Pointe won the 2024 Award for Excellence in Pre-Law Advising!
Finally, as many of you know, Law & Society Review published a special memorial issue to honor our late friend, colleague, and mentor, Laurie Edelman.
JSP student achievements: 2023-24 witnessed an extraordinary run here, too. Bonnie Cherry and Brianne Felsher were selected as Student Research Colloquium Fellows by the American Society for Legal History. Brianne also won an ASLH Cromwell Fellowship for early career scholars, while Bonnie garnered an AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, a Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry Summer Research Grant, and a CSLS Francis Coles Summer Research Grant. Zabdi Salazar (JD ’24) was named Managing Editor of the California Law Review. Kyle DeLand placed first and Michael Banerjee second in the California Supreme Court Historical Society's Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition. Taylor Galdi was accepted to the prestigious Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Training Program (CRELS). Lawrence Liu and Laura Ramirez won '24-'25 BELS Fellowships, with Lawrence adding an IGS Synar Graduate Research Fellowship for good measure. Dvir Yogev won the 2023 CSLS Graduate Student Paper Prize.