Awards:

Academic Honors:

• Inaugural John Marshall Harlan Lecturer, Transylvania University, 2013

• John Phillip Reid Book Award by the American Society for Legal History for "the best book published in English in the previous year [2006] . . . in Anglo-American legal history"

• Hughes-Gossett Award for outstanding article in Journal of Supreme Court History, 2001

• Chancellor’s Citation for Academic Excellence, Syracuse University, 2001

• Outstanding Scholar and Teacher, Syracuse University, 1997

• American Law Institute (elected 1991)

• Phi Beta Kappa (elected 1959)

Non-Academic Awards:

• United States Coast Guard: Boat Force Operations device; Auxiliary Commandant’s Letter of Commendation; Presidential Unit Citation; Secretary’s Outstanding Unit Award; Coast Guard Unit Commendation. 

• Emergency Medical Services:  Meritorious Service Award 1992, “for performance of duty involving personal risk above and beyond routine operations” for rescue of utility workers in a gas main explosion.