The Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Torts and Compensation Systems named Nora Freeman Engstrom, JD ’02, the winner of the 2025 Prosser Award for her contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service in the field of tort law. Engstrom, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, is the youngest winner of the Prosser Award since the award’s inception in 1974.

Additionally, in October 2024, at the Complex Litigation Ethics Conference, Engstrom received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Ethics in Complex Litigation. According to the conference organizers, Engstrom’s “writings have made extraordinary contributions to our understanding of how complex litigation works in practice and how we can improve it to serve victims of unlawful conduct and promote justice.”

Engstrom also received an Honorable Mention from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Professional Responsibility for her co-authored The Yale Law Journal feature, “Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis.” The article explores how automobile clubs, popular in the 1920s, provided affordable legal services to everyday Americans—and it examines how bar associations’ actions that targeted these clubs for engaging in the “unauthorized practice of law” helped ignite the current access-to-justice crisis. SL