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    February 06, 2023

    Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award

    Catherine M. Sharkey, the Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at New York University School of Law

    Catherine M. Sharkey, the Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at New York University School of Law

    (Left) Gary L. Gassman, TIPS Chair, (Right) Professor Jeffrey Thomas

    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 at the ABA Midyear Meeting.

    Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award Recipients

    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