Catherine Sharkey
School of Law
catherine.sharkey@nyu.edu
Catherine Sharkey joins the NYU faculty as a Professor of Law. Her areas of teaching and research interest are torts, punitive damages, class actions, remedies, products liability, and empirical legal studies. She will teach Torts in the upcoming semester. Her recent publications include: Backdoor Federalization: Grappling with the 'Risk to the Rest of the Country', UCLA Law Review (2006); “Dissecting Damages: An Empirical Exploration of Sexual Harassment Awards, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2006); Revisiting the Noninsurable Costs of Accidents, Maryland Law Review (2005); Unintended Consequences of Medical Malpractice Damages Caps, NYU Law Review (2005); “Punitive Damages: Should Juries Decide? Texas Law Review (2003).
Professor Sharkey served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty at Columbia Law School, professor Sharkey worked for several years as an appellate litigation associate at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in New York. She was a John M. Olin, Jr. Fellow at the Center for Law and Economic Studies at Columbia Law School. Professor Sharkey received her B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from Yale University, her M.Sc. in Economics for Development, with distinction, from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal.