• Phi Beta Kappa. Departmental Citation. Department of German. University of California, Berkeley. l968.
  • National Defense Education Act Fellowship for Graduate Study in German. University of California, Berkeley. l969-l97l.
  • Fulbright Senior Professor Award. American Criminal Law and Procedure. Free University, Berlin, Germany. l987-l988.
  • International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship. Institute of State and Law. Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia. l992-l993.
  • Recipient. 2002 Thompson-Coburn Award for Scholarship. Saint Louis University School of Law
    Recipient. 2010. Thompson-Coburn Award for Scholarship. For article or book chapter. Saint Louis University School of Law.
  • Fulbright Senior Professor Award. Comparative Criminal Procedure. University of Trento, Italy: Feb.-May, 2015.
    Hans-Heinrich Jescheck Prize, in recognition of sustained innovative and outstanding research that has contributed significantly to the advancement of comparative, international or supranational criminal law. Given by the International Association of Penal Law and the Max-Planck-Institute for International and Comparative Criminal Law. Rome. November 14, 2019.
  • 9th International Crime & Punishment Film Festival Academy Honorary Award. Istanbul. November 21, 2019