Our Legal Studies students are among the best and the brightest at Cal.
We would like to acknowledge and congratulate those who have won awards for their exceptional work.
Please contact Lauri@berkeley.edu if you've won a prize as a Legal Studies undergrad at Cal.
Anna Diaz '24
Legal Studies Major
Public Policy Minor
2024 Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
Sanjana Manjeshwar '23
Legal Studies and Sociology Major
2023 American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Law’s Undergraduate Student Paper Award
“Agreements” in Name Only: How Workers Understand Mandatory Arbitration Clauses and Class Action Waivers in Employment Contracts"
Shealyn Massey '23
2023 LSA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
“The Legal Consciousness and Legal Mobilization of Queer Asian Pacific Islanders”
Suaad Nour '23
Legal Studies and Business Major
2023 KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize
Kevin McCarthy '23
Legal Studies Major
2022-2023 Chancellor's Award for Public Service
Mather Good Citizen Award
Kevin McCarthy '23
Legal Studies Major
2021-2022 Chancellor's Award for Public Service
Underground Scholars Initiative (USI)
Student Group Award for Civic Engagement
Eva Polovina '25
Legal Studies Major
2023 Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
Sanjana Manjeshwar '23
Legal Studies and Sociology Major
2023 Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
Louana Garraud '22
Legal Studies Major
City & Regional Planning Minor
Departmental Citation
Juliette Tafoya '22
Legal Stuides Major
Public Policy Minor
2022 Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
Nina Perez-Morales ’21
Legal Studies Major
Departmental Citation
Lesly Avendano '21
Legals Studies Major
2021 Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
Gracielle Li '23
Legal Studies, Political Science & Psychology Major
2021 Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
Raika Kim ’20
Legal Studies Major
Ethnic Studies Minor
2021 LSA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
“The Ability to Work: Perspectives of Workers with Disabilities”
Raika Kim ’20
Legal Studies Major
Ethnic Studies Minor
2021 Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
“The Ability to Work: Perspectives of Workers with Disabilities”
Mia Villasenor ’20
Legal Studies Major
Public Policy Minor
Departmental Citation
Anthony Carrasco ’19
Legal Studies Major
2020 LSA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
“Social Contracts: Unconscionability, Vulnerability, and Other Sociopolitical Constructions of the Judicial Imagination.”
Marnie Lowe ’18
Legal Studies Major
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research 2018
“Resonance, Radicalism, and the Death Penalty“
Rayna Saron ’18
Legal Studies and Cognitive Science Major
Departmental Citation
Rachel Schuster ’17
Legal Studies Major
2018 ASA Undergraduate Student Paper Award
“Individual Mobilization of Disability Rights”
Jonathan Rasmusson ’17
Legal Studies and Society and Environment Major
Departmental Citation
Brianna Alleyn ’17
Legal Studies Major
Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in Lyric Poetry
“If I could Talk to You”
Mitchell Santos Toledo ’16
Legal Studies Major
2017 LSA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
“Liminal Legality and Legal Consciousness: Undocumented Student Responses to DACA”
Haylee Bernal ’16
Legal Studies Major
Departmental Citation
Helen Ganski ’13
Legal Studies Major
Published in Berkeley Review of Education
“Inter-District School Choice: Transfer Policy and Practice in a Fragmented Metropolitan Region”
Caitlin Nelson ’15
Legal Studies Major
Published in Ramapo Journal of Law and Society
“Paradise Not Lost: Community Recovery in the Wake of the 2014 Isla Vista Massacre”
Alyssa De Oca ’15
Legal Studies Major
Departmental Citation
Chelsea Goddard ’16
Legal Studies and Political Science Major
Junior Scholar and IIS Undergraduate Merit Scholarship recipient
Institute of International Studies
“The Implications of Socially Conscious Art: A Look Into Brazilian Favelas and How Painting Can Transform Communities”
Nelya Trofimuk ’14
Legal Studies and Economics Major
Departmental Citation
Helen Ganski ’13
Legal Studies major
Departmental Citation
Viktoriia Nevmyvakova ’13
Legal Studies Major
William D. Ferreira Scholarship
J. Steven Schumacher ’13
Legal Studies Major
William D. Ferreira Scholarship
Erica You You Yang ’14
Legal Studies and Business Major
The Institute of International Studies Merit Based Scholarship
Chase Burton ’11
Legal Studies Major
Law and Society Association 2012 Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
“Spare the Cell, Spoil the Child: Early History and Philosophy of American Juvenile Justice.”
Ru Yue Cathy Wang ’12
Legal Studies and Business Major
American Sociological Association, Sociology of Law, 2012 Undergraduate Paper Prize
“Effect of Work-Family Policy Design and Culture on Women’s Employment Outcomes and Men’s User Rates.”
Sungho Kim ’12
Legal Studies Major
Departmental Citation
Elisa Elkind ’11
Legal Studies Major
Departmental Citation
Chase Burton ’11
Legal Studies Major
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research 2011
“Spare the Cell, Spoil the Child: The History and Philosophy of American Juvenile Justice”
Colleen Lee ’10
Legal Studies and History Major
Departmental Citation
Robert Warren Gray, Jr. ’09
Legal Studies and Psychology Major
Departmental Citation
Charles Taylor ’08
Legal Studies Major
Departmental Citation
Ashley Aubuchon (now Ashley Rubin) ’07
Legal Studies and History Major
Departmental Citation
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research 2007
“A Means to an End: The Role of Religion in Eastern State Penitentiary during ‘The Experiment'”
Please contact Lauri@berkeley.edu if you won a prize as a Legal Studies undergrad at Cal.