Gruber Justice Prize

Morris Dees, an attorney and businessman-turned-social justice activist is one of five recipients of the 2011 Gruber Justice Prize awarded by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. A founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, he will equally share the $500,000 prize with four other recipients, including the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The decade-old Gruber Prize honors people “who, often at great personal risk, fight for the Rule of Law.”