Catherine Sharkey, who specializes in torts, punitive damages, and class actions, will join the faculty at New York University’s School of Law this fall. Sharkey, currently a professor at Columbia University’s Law School, was a visiting professor at NYU during the 2006-07 academic year.
Catherine Sharkey, who specializes in torts, punitive damages, and class actions, will join the faculty at New York University’s School of Law this fall. Sharkey, currently a professor at Columbia University’s Law School, was a visiting professor at NYU during the 2006-07 academic year.
A Rhodes Scholar, Sharkey is also an expert in the areas of product liability and empirical legal studies. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice David Souter and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following these clerkships, Sharkey worked as a Supreme Court and appellate litigation associate at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.
Sharkey has been a member of the Columbia Law School faculty since 2003, arriving in Morningside Heights after a year as a John M. Olin, Jr. Fellow at its Center for Law and Economic Studies. She is a senior editor of the Journal of Tort Law and has published in the New York University Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.
Sharkey received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997, a master of science in economics for development from Oxford University in 1994, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale in 1992. While at Yale, Sharkey was a member of the U.S. national women’s lacrosse team and an All-American lacrosse player as captain of the university’s women’s lacrosse team.