Date Chartered: 1/1/1973
Purpose
The Section on Torts and Compensation Systems promotes and stimulates ideas, interest, and activities, and the communication and discussion thereof, among those concerned with the teaching, administration, improvement, and reformation of the law relating to torts and compensation systems.
Annual Meeting Programs
2025
2024
2023
- Main Program
- Award Ceremony
- Agricultural and Food Law (Co-Sponsored by Animal Law, Natural Resources, and Torts and Compensation Systems)
- Remedies (Co-Sponsored by Intellectual Property and Torts and Compensation Systems)
2022
2021
2020
- Main Program
- Law and Sports (Co-sponsored by Torts and Compensation Systems)
2019
- Main Program
- Defamation and Privacy (Co-sponsored by Torts and Compensation Systems)
- Jurisprudence (Co-sponsored by Torts and Compensation Systems)
- Teaching Methods (Co-sponsored by Torts and Compensation Systems)
Awards
William L. Prosser Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding contributions of law teachers in scholarship, teaching and service in the torts and compensation systems of law.
Nominations and Eligibility: Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 William L. Prosser Award. Any law professor is eligible to nominate another law professor for the award. Nominators can renew past nominations by resubmitting materials. Living tort scholars and those who have passed away within the last five years are eligible for the award. Selection of the recipient will be made by members of the Executive Committee of the Torts & Compensation Systems section, based on the recommendation of a special selection committee. The award will be presented at the annual AALS meeting in New Orleans, in January 2026.
Nominations must be accompanied by a brief supporting statement and should be submitted no later than Friday, August 15, 2025. Please email submissions to Alex Long at [email protected].
Selection Process: The selection committee shall consist of the members of the Torts and Compensation Systems Executive Committee. Selection of a recipient will be made no later than November 1st.
Recipients
| Year | Award Name | Recipient | Law School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | William L. Prosser Award | Nora F. Engstrom | Stanford Law School |
| 2024 | William L. Prosser Award | Kenneth S. Abraham | University of Virginia School of Law |
| 2023 | William L. Prosser Award | Benjamin C. Zipursky | Fordham University School of Law |
| 2023 | William L. Prosser Award | John Goldberg | Harvard Law School |
| 2022 | William L. Prosser Award | Martha Chamallas | The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law |
| 2021 | William L. Prosser Award | Jack Weinstein | United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York |
| 2020 | William L. Prosser Award | Anita Bernstein | Brooklyn Law School |
| 2019 | William L. Prosser Award | Kenneth Simons | University of California, Irvine School of Law |
| 2018 | William L. Prosser Award | Marshall Shapo | Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law |
| 2017 | William L. Prosser Award | Stephen Sugarman | University of California, Berkeley School of Law |
| 2016 | William L. Prosser Award | Aaron Twerski | Brooklyn Law School |
| 2015 | William L. Prosser Award | Michael Green | Wake Forest University School of Law |
| 2014 | William L. Prosser Award | James A. Henderson Jr. | Cornell Law School |
| 2013 | William L. Prosser Award | Jane Stapleton | The University of Texas School of Law |
| 2012 | William L. Prosser Award | Richard A. Posner | United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School |