YALE LAW SCHOOL — Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology Monica C. Bell ’09 received the 2022 Derrick A. Bell Jr. Award on Saturday, Jan 8, 2022. The award, given by the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)honors a junior law school faculty member “who, through activism, mentoring, colleagueship, teaching or scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system, or social justice.” In 2021, Bell also received two awards for her scholarship. The Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) awarded her the Distinguished Article Award for her article, “Located Institutions: Neighborhood Frames, Residential Preferences, and the Case of Policing,” published in the American Journal of Sociology.