Recognition
- William J. Brennan, Jr. Award for outstanding contribution to public discourse (1998)
- Learned Hand Award of the American Jewish Committee
- Thurgood Marshall Award of the New York State Bar Association
- William J. Brennan, Jr. Award of the Libel Defense Resource Center (1999)
- Milton S. Gould Award for outstanding appellate advocacy by the New York Office of the Appellate Defender (1997)
- Ross Essay Prize of the American Bar Association
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
- Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association for his article The New Effort to Control Information, published in The New York Times.
- Ranked among the top two leading trial lawyers in New York for First Amendment Cases by Chambers USA: Leading Lawyers for Business (2006)
- Who's Who in American Law
- 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by The National Law Journal (2006)
- Ronald K.L. Collins, Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment (2013)
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