Martha Fineman - Awards and Recognitions

Awards and Recognitions

Fineman is the recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including the 2008 Cook Award from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and the 2006–2007 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, one of the United Kingdom's top academic honors. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Harry Kalven Prize, awarded by the Law and Society Association to a scholar whose body of "empirical scholarship has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society." In March 2004, a symposium of some 500 scholars and students gathered at Emory University School of Law to celebrate the scholarship of its three Robert W. Woodruff Professors of Law, Harold J. Berman, Martha Albertson Fineman, and Michael J. Perry, and Visiting Professor Martin E. Marty.

She was Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in 1997, was Distinguished Associated Professor at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs in 2003, has held an honorary Professorship at Queen's University Belfast since 2004, was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsberg Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Thomas Jefferson Law School in 2005 and has held the Hedda Andersson Visiting Professorship at Lund University since 2012.

In 2013 Lund University awarded her an honorary doctorate. The Faculty of Law named Fineman and former Swedish Chief Justice Johan Munck as its new honorary doctors in 2013.