Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Retired) has been honored with The Association of American Law School’s prestigious William L. Prosser Award from the Section on Torts and Compensation Systems. 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.
Judge Weinstein served as a federal judge for 53 years, retiring earlier this year at the age of 98.
“No one in modern American law has played a more important role in pressing lawyers, fellow judges, and law professors to reconsider the potential of tort law to contribute to a just polity,” said John C.P. Goldberg of Harvard Law School. “In presiding fairly and firmly over asbestos, Agent Orange, DES, and many other complex litigations, Judge Weinstein created and defined the field of mass torts. Along the way, he has provided deeply learned treatments of topics ranging from causation to punitive damages. Most importantly, everything he has done in the world of torts has been guided by an unrelenting drive to help ordinary people.”
Learn more about the award here.