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 Annual Meeting and recipients must be able to attend the meeting in order to accept the award in person.
Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award Recipients
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