Honoring Distinguished Faculty
黑料传送门 Law is proud to recognize the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Educator Award and Distinguished Scholarship Award.
Professor Erin R. Collins received the 2025 Law Distinguished Educator Award. Collins is known for her inclusive pedagogy, fostering respectful, diverse classroom environments where she innovates through exercises like court visits and real-world scenario applications, engaging students as active learners. She has developed new courses, notably the rare Crimmigration Law seminar, enhancing students’ competitive edge in criminal and immigration law fields, and exemplifies leadership in legal education through her innovative teaching, mentorship, scholarship, and service.
This year’s Distinguished Scholarship Award went to Professor Allison Tait, a highly respected and prolific scholar whose work focuses on how family and household economic regulations produce inequality. Her scholarship examines trust and estate laws that favor the wealthy, highlighting systemic disparities and contributing to broader discussions on extraction, inequality, and marginalization. Recognized as a leading expert in this field, with one of the highest citation counts on the faculty, her work is frequently cited in prestigious national journals. These accomplishments underscore her significant impact on legal scholarship as a recipient of this distinguished award.
Congratulations to the honorees!