Class of 2025 Recognizes Professor Larsen as Outstanding Teacher

Professor of the Year The 1L Professor of the Year Award recognizes a faculty member’s outstanding work with first-year students both inside and outside of the classroom. Professor Larsen received her award from students Margaret Dupree and Emily Baker while teaching Con Law. Photo by David F. Morrill

by Staff | May 31, 2023

When is a surprise a real surprise? When it’s April 27 and you’re Professor Allison Orr Larsen and members of the 1L Class of 2025 briefly interrupt your Con Law class to honor you with the 1L Professor of the Year Award.

The award recognizes a faculty member’s outstanding work with first-year students both inside and outside of the classroom.

Larsen is the Engh Research Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and Alfred Wilson & Mary I.E. Lee Professor of Law at William & Mary where she also directs the Institute for the Bill of Rights Law. She teaches courses in constitutional law, administrative law, and statutory interpretation.

Since joining the William & Mary law faculty in 2010, Larsen has received many awards honoring her teaching and scholarship including: the university’s Alumni Fellowship Award, the Walter L. Williams, Jr., Memorial Teaching Award, two university-wide Plumeri Awards, the inaugural McGlothlin Teaching Award and the state-wide Outstanding Faculty Award in the “Rising Star” category (the latter is Virginia’s highest faculty honor, awarded by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia).