Nationality United States | Name Catherine Sharkey | |
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Title Crystal Eastman Professor of Law Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Faculty moot court featuring professors roderick hills and catherine sharkey
Catherine Moira Sharkey (born 1970) is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on torts, punitive damages, class actions, remedies, products liability, and empirical legal studies.
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- Faculty moot court featuring professors roderick hills and catherine sharkey
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Sharkey graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from Yale University, summa cum laude, (Skull and Bones 1992), and went on to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, graduating in 1994 with a master of science in Economics for Development, with honors and with distinction. Catherine then attended Yale Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal, graduating in 1997.
Sharkey 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.