AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems Bestows William L. Prosser Award on Kenneth W. Simons

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The William L. Prosser Award, bestowed by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, recognizes outstanding contributions of law teachers in scholarship, teaching and service relating to torts and compensation systems. Designed to recognize a lifetime of truly outstanding contribution to the world of torts, the Prosser Award was first bestowed upon Leon Green in 1974. Subsequent Prosser Award winners included Fleming James, Wex Malone, Page Keeton, John Wade, and Willard Pedrick. Revived in 2008, recent Prosser Award winners include Robert Rabin (2008), Dan Dobbs (2009), Oscar Gray (2010), Guido Calabresi (2011), Richard Posner (2012), Jane Stapleton (2013), James Henderson, Jr (2014), Michael Green (2015), Aaron Twerski (2016), Stephen Sugarman (2017), and Marshall Shapo (2018). It is my great honor and pleasure to announce that Kenneth W. Simons, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) School of Law, is the 2019 Prosser Award winner. Professor Simons is a leading scholar of tort law, criminal law, and law and philosophy and Co-director of UC Irvine’s Center for Legal Philosophy. Since 2014, he has served as Chief Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement Third of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons. Professor Simons has published influential scholarship concerning consent, assumption of risk and contributory negligence; the nature and role