He is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he is also the director of the Institute for Legal Research.
[4] Scheiber became an instructor at Dartmouth College in 1960, where he later became a full professor before leaving the faculty in 1971.
He was named the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History there in 1991, and became the director of the Institute for Legal Research (then known as the Earl Warren Legal Institute) in 2002.
[5] Scheiber received a humanities fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1979.
[1] He was named an honorary life fellow of the American Society for Legal History in 1999, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.