The Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award was created to honor those law professors who have shown commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship, and the legal profession, demonstrated by outstanding contributions to the fields of tort, trial practice, or insurance law. The award is given out annually, and recipients must be able to attend the meeting to accept the award in person.
Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award
Past Recipients
- 2024: Penny White
- 2023: Catherine M. Sharkey
- 2022: David Owen
- 2020: Robert Jerry II
- 2019: Marc Galanter
- 2018: Michael D. Green
- 2017: Jeffrey Stempel
- 2016: Jane Stapleton
- 2015: Judge Guido Calabresi
- 2014: Terence F. MacCarthy
- 2013: Tom Baker
- 2012: Laurence M. Rose
- 2011: James A. Henderson Jr.
- 2010: Dan B. Dobbs
- 2009: Charles M. Silver
- 2008: Ronald A. Cass
- 2007: Aaron Twerski
- 2006: Ellen Pryor
- 2005: Marshall S. Shapo
- 2004: Edward F. Sherman
- 2003: William Powers, Jr.
- 2002: Deborah Hensler
- 2001: Richard A. Posner
- 2000: Kenneth S. Abraham
- 1999: Robert E. Keeton
- 1998: Roger C. Henderson
- 1997: Robert L. Rabin
- 1996: Andrew F. Popper
- 1995: Charles Alan Wright
- 1994: V. Robert Payant
- 1993: John R. Kircher
- 1992: Jeffrey O’Connell
- 1991: Spencer Kimball
- 1990: Robert McKay
- 1989: James Ghiardi
- 1988: W. Page Keeton & John Wade