Catherine Sharkey

Catherine Sharkey is the Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at NYU School of Law. She is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the economic loss rule, punitive damages, and federal preemption. She has published more than fifty articles, essays, and book chapters in the fields of torts, business torts, product liability, administrative law, remedies, and class actions. Sharkey is co-author with Richard Epstein of Cases and Materials on Torts (12th edition, 2020) and co-editor with Saul Levmore of Foundations of Tort Law (2nd edition, 2009). She is an appointed public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and a principal adviser on Administering by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in the Regulatory State, a project for the Office of the Chairman. Sharkey is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an adviser to the Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm and Restatement Third, Torts: Remedies projects. She was a 2011-12 Guggenheim Fellow.

Sharkey received her BA in economics summa cum laude from Yale University. A Rhodes Scholar, she received an MSc in economics for development, with distinction, from Oxford University, and her JD from Yale Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Sharkey served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the US Supreme Court.