Facuty Awards
2011 Doctor Iuris Honoris Causa, University of Augsburg
2011 ABA Section of International Law, Leonard J. Theberge Award for Private International Law
2003 Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award
1990 University Center for International Studies Senior Research Fellowship
1989 Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Belgium
1989 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award
1988 Student Bar Association Excellence in Teaching Award
Excellence in Teaching Award (2008)
Excellence in Teaching Award (1999)
Excellence in Teaching Award (1994)
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (1991)
American Association for Justice, Top 100 in Pennsylvania
The Best Lawyers In America, 1999-2011
Pennsylvania SuperLawyers, 2004-2011
Top 50 in Pittsburgh 2004, 2005, 2006
Designated a "Pennsylvania Rising Star" by Pittsburgh Magazine and Law and Politics magazine, 2012
Excellence in Teaching Award (2004)
Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award (2001)
American Association of Publishers, Most Outstanding Book in Legal and Accounting Practice Category for The Right to Die (1989)
American Federation of Clinical Research, Nellie Westerman Prize in Medical Ethics for Ethical Factors in the Allocation of Experimental Medical Therapies: The Chronic Left-Ventricular Assist Device (1990) (with LS Parker, RM Arnold, LA Siminoff, LH Roth)
Fellow, The Hastings Center
Pellegrino Medal for Contributions to American Health Care Ethics and Law in the selfless spirit of Edmund D. Pellegrino. Samford University (2005)
"Woman of the Year" awarded by the Pitt Law Women's Association, the Women's Bar Association of Western PA, and the Women in the Law Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association (2008)
Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award (2004)
Pittsburgh Courier Woman of Excellence (2010)
Award Recipient, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (2001)
Dukeminier Award, granted by the Williams Institute of the UCLA School of Law (2009)
Elected Member, American Law Institute (2004)
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (2000)
Excellence in Teaching Award (2005)
Excellence in Teaching Award (1990)



























