Professor Robert M. Lloyd is the Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor at The University of Tennessee College of Law, where he teaches courses in contracts, commercial law, and finance. His primary research interest is damages for lost profits. Professor Lloyd has three times been honored with the Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award and once with the Student Bar Association Outstanding Teaching Award. In 1996, he received the University of Tennessee National Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award and in 2010 he was again a finalist for that award. Professor Lloyd is a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to his teaching career at Tennessee, he practiced law with a large firm in Los Angeles.