Catherine Sharkey
| Catherine Sharkey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 45–46) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale Law School (J.D.) University of Oxford (M.Sc.) Yale University (A.B.) |
| Employer | New York University School of Law |
| Known for | Tort law, empirical legal studies |
| Title | Crystal Eastman Professor of Law |
Catherine Moira Sharkey (born 1970) is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses torts, punitive damages, class actions, remedies, products liability, and empirical legal studies.
Sharkey graduated from Yale University, (Skull and Bones 1992), and went on to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. She then attended Yale Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court.
Before joining the faculty at Columbia Law School and later NYU School of Law, Sharkey worked for several years as an appellate litigation associate at Mayer Brown in New York.
Sharkey is occasionally mentioned as a potential future United States Supreme Court nominee.[1]
Books
- Sharkey, Catherine; Epstein, Richard A. (2012). Cases and materials on torts. New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. ISBN 9780735599925.
References
- ↑ Schneider-Mayerson, Anna (2005-11-03). "The Little Supremes". The New York Observer.
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