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The American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) will present its 2005 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award to Marshall S. Shapo, the Frederick P. Vose Professor at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. The award will be presented during the 2005 ABA Annual Meeting at the TIPS Annual Section luncheon on Saturday, Aug. 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m., at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Chicago.

The award is given annually to recognize a commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession, demonstrated through outstanding contributions to the fields of tort, trial, or insurance law.

Shapo is an expert on torts and product liability law whose work has been published extensively. He is a leader in the academic study of law. Currently the Frederick P. Vose Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, he has held many faculty positions including the Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Professor of Law at the University of Texas, a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and a visiting professor at the Juristiches Seminar, University of Gottingen. Shapo received an AB and LLB degree from the University of Miami, where he served as Editor in Chief of Law Review, and an AM in History and an SJD from Harvard, where he was a Ford Fellow.

Shapo was awarded the Andrew C. Hecker Award of the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel for the article "E-Commerce and Products Liability: A Primer on Exposure at the Speed of Light." He currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Roscoe Pound Institute and is a member of the American Law Institute. He has been active in the American Bar Association and TIPS, serving as a frequent lecturer and author. Shapo has also served on the editorial board of the European-based Journal of Consumer Policy and the board of editors of the Products Liability Law Journal.

For more information about the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section visit the TIPS Web site, www.abanet.org/tips.

T he ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section is the only national professional group to bring together plaintiffs' lawyers, defense lawyers and insurance and corporate counsel for the exchange of information and ideas. The section's more than 30,000 members and 36 general committees focus on substantive and procedural matters in areas including aviation and space law, fidelity and surety law, medical malpractice, transportation law and others.

With more than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.

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