ANITA BERNSTEIN, Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor
of Law, has been named the recipient of the 2020 William L.
Prosser Award by the Association of American Law Schools
(AALS) Section on Torts and Compensation Systems. She will
be presented with the award, which honors the “outstanding
contributions of law teachers in scholarship, teaching, and
service” related to torts and compensation systems, at the
annual AALS meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. Professor
Aaron Twerski received the award in 2015.
Bernstein, a nationally recognized authority on tort law,
feminist jurisprudence, professional responsibility, and
products liability, is a member of the American Law Institute
and a past chair of the AALS Executive Committee on Torts
and Compensation Systems. Her recent book, The Common
Law Inside the Female Body (Cambridge University Press,
2019), breaks new ground with an in-depth exploration of U.S.
common law through history—focusing on crimes, contracts,
torts, and property—as a fertile source for strengthening
women’s rights
and freedoms. The
book is the subject
of forthcoming
symposia that
will appear in the
Northwestern
University Law
Review Online and the Boston
College Law
Review Electronic
Supplement.
“This award is
a fitting, and well-earned, recognition by Professor Bernstein’s
peers of her exceptional contributions,” said Dean Michael T.
Cahill. “I join with her Brooklyn Law School faculty colleagues in
extending our warmest congratulations on this honor.”