Catherine Sharkey

Who is Catherine Sharkey?

Catherine Moira Sharkey 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, 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.