For the third time in history, a faculty member of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will be honored with the university’s Sonneborn Award.
Donna Nagy, the C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law and executive associate dean, will be recognized with a number of other distinguished award-winners at a ceremony this fall. She follows Leandra Lederman, William W. Oliver Chair Emerita in Tax Law (2019), and Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law Susan H. Williams (2014) as law faculty who have earned the honor.
The Tracy M. Sonneborn Award honors faculty for accomplishments in the areas of teaching and research. The award, named for the late eminent scientist Professor Tracy M. Sonneborn, is given to an exemplary researcher who is also well known as an exemplary teacher.
“These faculty members have reined their pedagogy, research, and modes of engagement to the highest standard, serving as inspiration not only for our campus but for their fields and every community influenced by their endeavors,” said Rahul Shrivastav, IU Bloomington provost and executive vice president. “I am immensely proud to work alongside these trailblazing scholars.”
Shrivastav announced the Sonneborn, Burgan, and Venkat awards and the recommendation of IU Provost Professors and Herman B Wells Professors today (June 11).
All of the award recipients were recommended by a faculty committee sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and will be celebrated at a reception in the fall 2024 semester. Nagy will deliver a campus-wide lecture in spring 2025.
“This is such a well-deserved honor for Professor Nagy and all of us at the Law School are so proud that she’ll be honored with a Sonneborn Award by the university,” said Dean Christiana Ochoa. “Professor Nagy has been an invaluable part of our school for nearly two decades, and her service to our campus, school, faculty, and students as a teacher, scholar, and administrator are simply unparalleled.”
Nagy is the C. Ben Dutton Professor of Business Law and executive associate dean at the Maurer School of Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of securities litigation, securities regulation and corporations, and she has served in her administrative role for most of the past decade. Her internationally recognized scholarship includes two co-authored books: one on the law of insider trading and a casebook on securities litigation, enforcement and compliance. She has published extensively in distinguished law journals on matters including insider trading, government officials and financial conflicts of interest, and securities enforcement remedies.
Nagy has been invited to testify on multiple occasions in hearings before U.S. congressional committees and is also a frequent speaker at law schools and professional conferences. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served as an appointed member of the National Adjudicatory Council of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association. She has held numerous leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools and received an Outstanding Mentor Award from its Business Associations Section.
Nagy began her teaching career in 1994, after working as an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, D.C.