Convocation Award Nominations

Award Nominations

Deadline for all Submissions:  TBD

Convocation awards are given to graduating J.D. and LL.M. students who represent the best in our student body. These award recipients* are chosen through a nomination process that is defined by category.
 

SCHOLARSHIP & ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS (J.D.)

You will note that the Overall Achievement Awards are overlapping.  You may combine award names (e.g., Sommer, Butler, Goodman, Foulk) when you submit your nomination.  Include a statement in support of the nominee that highlights their outstanding credentials. For self-nominations, be sure to include your resume in an MS Word document to the Office of Student Affairs.

Category	Award	Award Description	Submit Nominations To:
Overall Achievement	Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award	For outstanding scholarship, character, and professional activities	Office of Student Affairs
Overall Achievement	Benjamin F. Butler Memorial Award	For unusual distinction in scholarship, character, and professional activities	Office of Student Affairs
Overall Achievement	Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize	For outstanding scholarship and character	Office of Student Affairs
Overall Achievement	George P. Foulk Memorial Award	For outstanding sincerity and distinguished  scholarship	Office of Student Affairs

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VANDERBILT MEDALS AND DEAN JOHN SEXTON PRIZE (J.D. & LL.M.,Service to the Law School)

Vanderbilt Medals and the Dean John Sexton Prize are designed to recognize students who have made a significant contribution to our community.  Specifically, Vanderbilt Medals are given to several students for "outstanding contributions to the School of Law" and the Dean John Sexton Prize to a "law student whose outstanding service to the Law School community exemplifies the values of Dean Sexton."

The recipients are students who have distinguished themselves in their commitment to the Law School through their work in student groups, journals, or other Law School activities and events. Please consider nominating graduating fellow classmates, members of your student organizations, or yourself. Your nomination statement should include your name, nominee's name and nominee's class year (3rd Year J.D. or LL.M.). For self-nominations, be sure to include your resume. In addition, describe the following:

•  List activities and/or organizations at NYU School of Law with which the nominee is or has been involved (where applicable indicate leadership position held in organization)
• Discuss the nominee's contributions to NYU School of Law through activities and organizations affiliated with the Law School.  Be as specific as possible in your comments.

For both award categories, provide the information requested above in an MS Word document to the Office of Student Affairs located in Furman 474 or by e-mail.

Category	Award	Award Description	Submit Nominations To:
Community Service	Vanderbilt Medals	For outstanding contributions to the School of Law	Office of Student Affairs
Community Service	Dean John Sexton Prize	To a law student whose outstanding community service to the Law School community exemplifies the values of Dean Sexton	Office of Student Affairs

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SUBJECT AREA & SPECIALIZATION AWARDS (J.D. & LL.M.)

Subject area awards are conferred for outstanding achievement in various fields of law.  These awards are based on scholarly or other excellence of the type described and can include superior quality work on a paper or note.

Students interested in being considered for a subject area award should ask the professor for whom they wrote a paper to submit this paper to the designated faculty member responsible for choosing the recipient of that award. Names of designated faculty members are indicated in the last column of the following charts.

Category	Award	Award Description	Submit Nominations To:
Administrative	Administrative Law Prize	To the student who has demonstrated excellence in the field of administrative law	Katrina Wyman
Antitrust	Betty Bock Prize in Competition Policy	To recognize a student who has excelled in the area of antitrust and competition law	Harry First
BLAPA	BLAPA Award for Clinical Service	Awarded to a member of APALSA, BALSA, LALSA, MELSA, MULSA, or SALSA for outstanding work in a clinical course, dedication to public service and commitment to a career in public interest law	Kelley Spencer
BLAPA	BLAPA Public Service Graduation Prize	Awarded to a member of APALSA, BALSA, LALSA, MELSA, MULSA or SALSA for dedication to public service and a commitment to a career in public interest law	Kelley Spencer
BLAPA	BLAPA Kim Barry '98 Memorial Graduation Prize	Awarded to a member APALSA, BALSA, LALSA, MELSA, MULSA, or SALSA who has demonstrated a commitment to international and human rights work and exhibits academic excellence in the best tradition of Kim Barry	Kelley Spencer
Civil Procedure	Weinfeld Prize for Scholarship in Procedure and Courts	Designated by the dean for distinguished scholarship in the area of federal courts, civil procedure and practice, evidence and/or trial practice	Helen Hershkoff
Clinic	Christian Jarecki '98 Memorial Prize	For outstanding work and commitment in a law clinic	Randy Hertz
Clinic	Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize	Designated by the dean in recognition of outstanding work in a clinical course requiring student practice	Randy Hertz
Comparative	Howard Greenberger Award	For outstanding achievement in the area of comparative law	Frank Upham
Constitutional	Leonard M. Henkin Prize	An annual prize to be awarded for an article or note on the equal rights portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution	David Richards
Constitutional	Robert B. McKay Prize in Constitutional Law	To recognize a student who has demonstrated excellence in constitutional law throughout his or her years at the NYU School of Law	Sujit Choudhry
Contract	Daniel G. Collins Prize	To the member of the graduating class who has demonstrated excellence in the area of contract law	Helen Scott
Copyright	Walter J. Derenberg Prize	For the student who achieves the highest excellence in the area of copyright law	Rochelle Dreyfuss
Criminal	Judge Abraham Lieberman Award	For outstanding scholarship in the area of criminal law	Erin Murphy
Economics	Law and Economics Prize	To a student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of law and economics	Oren Bar Gill
Environmental	Environmental Law Prize	To the student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of environmental law	Katrina Wyman
Ethics	Leonard J. Schreier Memorial Prize	To a law student who has exhibited academic excellence in the area of ethics	Stephen Gillers
Evidence	David Friedman Memorial Award	For outstanding achievement in evidence	Erin Murphy
Human Rights	International Human Rights Award	To a student with an outstanding academic record in the field of international human rights law	Philip Alston
International	Jerome Lipper Prize	For outstanding work in the field of international law	Benedict Kingsbury
Jewish/Israeli Relations	Chuna David and Rose Estreicher Memorial Prize	To a law student who has shown the greatest promise in the study of issues confronting the Jewish/Israeli peoples	Oscar Chase
Labor Law	Sol D. Kapelsohn Prize	Designated by the dean for highest excellence in writing in the field of labor law	Samuel Estreicher
Labor Relations	Seymour Goldstein Memorial Prize	For academic excellence in the area of labor relations	Samuel Estreicher
Philosophy	John Bruce Moore Award	To a student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of law and philosophy	Liam Murphy
Public Service	Eric Dean Bender Prize	For a third-year student who has demonstrated a working commitment to a public service-oriented cause or project outside of and separate from the Law School commitments	Denise Tomasini Joshi
Race Relations	Gary E. Moncrieffe Award	To the outstanding student in the area of racism and the law	Peggy Davis
Real Estate	Morris R. Henkin Prize	To a student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of real estate	Vicki Been
Sports and Entertainment	Larry Fleisher Memorial Foundation Prize	For extraordinary achievement in the area of sports and entertainment law	Samuel Estreicher
Tax	Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award	To recognize a J.D. student who has demonstrated excellence in taxation throughout his/her years at the NYU School of Law	Joshua Blank

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SPECIALIZATION AWARDS (LL.M.)

Category	Award	Award Description	Submit Nominations To:
Corporation Law	George Colin Award	For distinction in the LL.M. Corporation Law program	Marcel Kah
Environmental	Environmental Law Prize	For distinction in the LL.M. Environmental Law program	Katrina Wyman
IBRLA	International Business Regulation, Litigation, and Arbitration	For distinction in the IBRLA program	Franco Ferrari
International Tax	Flora S. and Jacob Newman Award	For distinction in the LL.M. International Tax program	H. David Rosenbloom
Tax	Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award	For distinction in the LL.M. Tax program	Joshua Blank

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POST-CONVOCATION AWARDS

These awards are based on a students GPA and can include superior quality work on a paper or note.  Students interested in being considered for an award should ask the professor for whom they wrote a paper to submit this paper to the designated faculty member responsible for choosing the recipient of that award.

Category	Award	Award Description	Submit Nominations To:
CIIL	Frank T. Diersen Prize	For distinction in the LL.M. Competition, Innovation, and Information Law program	Harry First
Entertainment	Jack J. Katz Memorial Award	To the student who has demonstrated highest excellence in the field of entertainment law	Harry First
International Legal Studies	Jerome Lipper Award	For distinction in the LL.M. International Legal Studies program	Benedict Kingsbury
Taxation	David F. Bradford Memorial Prize	To the student who has written the best paper in the field of taxation	Joshua Blank
Traditional	George Colin Award	For distinction in the Traditional LL.M. program	James Jacobs

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JOURNAL/MOOT COURT AWARDS 

Recipients of journal/moot court awards are selected by the relevant journals and the Moot Court Board.  We encourage editors of the student publications and Moot Court to develop internal procedures for the recommendation process.  Each journal or Moot Court Board is asked to select a recipient for each award relevant to that Journal/Moot Court and to submit the name(s) to Paul O'Grady, Associate Director for Student Affairs, at paul.ogrady@nyu.edu.  A full award list is available here.

 

RECIPIENT ADDRESSES

Award certificates and/or checks will be sent to the recipient's permanent address of record unless the Office of Student Affairs is otherwise notified  at law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu (This is the address to which the University will mail your diploma.).

Last Modified 7/30/13