The Aoki Center is proud to host the Angela Harris Prize for Critical Race Scholarship. The prize is named after Professor Emerita Angela Harris, who has written extensively in the field of critical legal theory, examining how law sometimes reinforces and sometimes challenges subordination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other dimensions of power and identity. Through her scholarly work and mentorship, generations of students have taken up the pursuit of examining the law through a critical lens.
As an acknowledgement of the impact that Professor Harris has made at King Hall, the Aoki Center is dedicating the first ever prize for critical race scholarship in her honor. The competition is open to all students enrolled at the UC Davis School of Law. The Harris Prize will be awarded during the Public Interest Graduation for the paper which makes the most significant scholarly contribution in the field of critical race theory. For more information, please contact Center's Program Coordinator Jesus Barraza-Garcia ( jbarraz@ucdavis.edu ).
2024 Award Recipient
Bo Yan Moran, Class of 2024
"Gold Rush Anti-Chinese Racism: The Birth of San Francisco’s Housing Crisis"
Bo Yan's paper will be published in the UC Davis Law, Social Justice Law Review journal for their upcoming Winter 2024 edition. Read her paper: