1.  1989: Distinguished Alumnae Award, University of Maryland Baltimore County.   I was the second recipient of this award given annually to a distinguished undergraduate college alumnus.

 

2.  1983:  Faculty Scholarship Award, Cleveland State University College of Law.  I received this award in my first year of teaching.

 

3.  1990: I was invited to write the Foreword to the Supreme Court Review issue of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.  I was teaching at Maryland at the time, and Barack Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review.

 

4.  2004-2005: I was awarded the John Carroll Research Chair, a one year appointment, in recognition of past scholarly achievement, at Georgetown University Law Center. 

 

5. 2006:  I was awarded the James Boyd White Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for the Study of Law Culture and Humanities.

 

6.  2007:  I was given the Frederick Haas Chair in Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center.

 

7.  2010:  I was elected as a Member at Large, to the Association for the Study of Political and Legal Philosophy.

 

8.  2015: I was awarded a service achievement award by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities.

 

9.  2015: I was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

10. 2020:  I was given the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award by the Section on Women and Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools.