During the last 20 years, some of the world’s most distinguished scholars have been invited to the law school to deliver a public lecture in memory of the late former dean Cecil A. Wright, who founded U of T’s modern law school.
2025 Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture
"Tort as Protector: Common Law in an Age of Regulations"
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 4:10pm to 6:00pm
Location: J140, Professor A.V. Dicey Classroom
Register here for the 2024/25 Wright lecture
If you require accommodation(s) please contact events.law@utoronto.ca
Catherine M. Sharkey
Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy
New York University School of Law
Professor Sharkey is a leading authority on torts, products liability, artificial intelligence in federal administrative agencies, public nuisance, punitive damages, and federal preemption of state tort law. She is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), a member of its Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence in Federal Agencies, author of Algorithmic Tools in Retrospective Review (2023) and co-author of Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies (2020). Sharkey is co-author of Cases and Materials on Torts (13th edition, 2024) and Business, Defamation, and Privacy Torts (1st ed., 2025), and co-editor of Foundations of Tort Law (2nd edition, 2009). She 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.
See the Wright Lecture archives to find out more information about past lectures, including in some cases a description, the text, or a video of the lecture.
