Board of Trustees Foundation Award for Scholarship
Board of Trustees Foundation Award for Scholarship
Nomination & Selection
UC Law SF’s Foundation Board of Trustees is responsible for the advancement of the university’s academic and reputational success.
A selection committee recommends faculty for the award. The current committee includes Provost & Academic Dean Morris Ratner, Associate Dean for Research Dave Owen, a distinguished faculty member nominated by the Foundation Board of Trustees, and the two most recent winners of the award.
Chancellor & Dean David Faigman shares the committee’s recommendation with the Foundation Board of Trustees, which votes to award the recipient.
The recipient receives a $7,500 award to support research costs.
2023
Jonathan Abel, Professor of Law
2022
Emily Murphy, Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair
2021
Veena Dubal
2020
Hadar Aviram, Thomas Miller ’73 Professor of Law
2019
Jodi Short, Mary Kay Kane Professor of Law
2018
Jared Ellias
Dave Owen, Associate Dean for Research and Harry Sunderland ’61 Professor of Law
2017
Alina Ball, Affiliated Scholar
Zachary Price, Professor of Law
2016
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey ’50 Chair of Litigation
2015
Jaime King, Senior Affiliated Scholar at the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy
2014
Keith Hand, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for East Asian Legal Studies
2013
Darien Shanske
2012
Osagie Obasogie
2011
Chimene Keitner
2010
Hadar Aviram, Thomas Miller ’73 Professor of Law
2009
Heather Field, Stephen A. Lind Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Tax Law
2008
Ethan Leib
2007
Evan Lee, Emeritus Professor of Law
2006
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Emerita Distinguished Professor of Law
2005
Ascanio Piomelli, Professor of Law
2004
Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the Center for Innovation
2003
David Faigman, Chancellor & Dean, William B. Lockhart Professor of Law and the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law
2002
Lois Weithorn, The Honorable Raymond L. Sullivan Professor of Law
2001
Aaron Rappaport, Professor of Law
2000
Vikram Amar
1999
Reuel Schiller, The Honorable Roger J. Traynor Chair and Professor of Law
1998
William Dodge
1997
Jo Carillo, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Indigenous Law Center
1996
Ash Bhagwat