Faculty Scholarship

Dobbs on Economic and Dignitary Torts: Cases and Materials, (2d ed., 2022) (co-author with Jane R. Bambauer and Daniel A. Arellano)

Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (9th ed. 2022) (co-author with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden)

When Regulation Fails?: Public Nuisance Liability as Fallback Option or Policy Plan, JOTWELL (August 12, 2022) (reviewing Leslie Kendrick, The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance, _ Yale L. J. _ (forthcoming 2023), available at SSRN.

Tort Common Law Future: Preventing Harm and Providing Redress to the Uncounted Injured, 14 The J. Tort L. 279 (2021) 

Leaving the Horse and Buggy Days of Limited Recovery for Economic Loss, JOTWELL (June 21, 2021) (reviewing Catherine M. Sharkey, Public Nuisance as Modern Business Tort: A New Unified Framework for Liability for Economic Harms, available at SSRN) 

Tort Rules Versus Tort Practice: The Products Liability Controversy that Wasn't, JOTWELL (June 18, 2020) (reviewing Aaron D. Twerski, An essay on the Quieting of Products Liability Law, available at SSRN)

What Tort Law Is, JOTWELL (October 15, 2019), (reviewing Gregory C. Keating, Is Tort Law "Private"?, in Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law (Paul B. Miller & John Oberdiek eds., 2019, available at SSRN)

When Cars are the Drivers:  Tort Law in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, JOTWELL (July 31, 2018), (reviewing Kenneth S. Abraham & Robert L. Rabin, Automated Vehicles and Manufacturer Responsibility for Accidents: A New Legal Regime for a New Era, 105 Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2019)

Torts and Compensation:  Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (8th ed. & concise 8th ed. 2017) (co-author with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden).

How Much is Your Injury Worth? First Tell Me Your Race and Gender, JOTWELL (July 6, 2017), (reviewing Ronen Avraham & Kimberly Yuracko, Torts and Discrimination, Law and Economic Research Paper No. E570 (2017), available at SSRN)

Hornbook of Torts (2d ed. 2016) (co-author, with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden).

The Man, The Torts Legend, JOTWELL (Feb. 23, 2016), (reviewing Christopher Robinette, The Prosser Letters:  1919-1948, 101 Iowa L. Rev. ___(2016), available at SSRN) and Kenneth S. Abraham & G. Edward White, Prosser and His Influence, 6 J. Tort Law 27 (2015), available at SSRN))

When Physical Harm is Threatened but Not Realized: Who Should Pay?, JOTWELL (Aug. 19, 2016), (reviewing Donal Nolan, Preventive Damages, 132 Law Q. Rev 68 (2016))

Who is Responsible for Child Sexual Abuse? A View from the Penn State Scandal, 17 J. Gender, Race & Just. 297 (2014).

In Defense, JOTWELL (Aug. 6, 2014), (reviewing Jason Goudkamp, Tort Law Defences (2013)

A Concise Restatement of Torts (3d ed. 2013) (editor).

Torts and Compensation:  Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (7th ed. & concise 7th ed. 2013) (co-author with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden).

Avoiding Liability But Not Tort, JOTWELL (Aug. 12, 2013), (reviewing Gideon Parchomovsky & Endre Stavang, Contracting Around Tort Defaults:  The K4K Principle and Accident Costs (working paper, 2013)

The Law of Torts (2d ed. 2011) (co-authors, with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden) (4-vol. treatise).

China's New Tort Law: The Promise of Reasonable Care, 13 Asian-Pac. L. & Pol'y J. 36 (2011).

The Tort Law During the Execution: The Expectation of the Reasonable Duty of Care, 10 Private Law 344 (2011) (in Chinese).

A Concise Restatement of Torts (2d ed. 2010) (editor).

Torts and Compensation:  Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (6th ed. & concise 6th ed. 2009) (co-author, with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden).

A Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Intentional Harm to Persons - Thoughts, 44 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1335 (2009).

The Tort-Proof Plaintiff: The Drunk in the Automobile, Crashworthiness Claims, and the Restatement (Third) of Torts, 74 Brooklyn L. Rev. 707 (2009)

Foreign Tort Law: Beyond Europe - Introduction, 26 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 271 (2009)

Civil Tort Actions Filed by Victims of Sexual Assault: Promise and Perils, VAWNet Applied Research Forum (Sep. 2009), (co-author with Jessica Mindlin)

Teachers Manual to Torts and Compensation:  Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (6th ed. 2009) (co-authors, with Dan B. Dobbs & Paul T. Hayden).

Upside Down? Terrorists, Proprietors, and Civil Responsibility for Crime Prevention in the Post-9/11 Tort-Reform World, 41 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1483 (2008)

Cases and Materials on Advanced Torts: Economic and Dignitary Torts - Business, Commercial and Intangible Harms (2006) (co-author, with Dan B. Dobbs).

Tort Suits Filed by Rape and Sexual Assault Victims in Civil Courts: Lessons for Courts, Classrooms and Constituencies, 59 SMU L. Rev. 55 (2006)

In Tribute:  Dan B. Dobbs--Seer in the Desert, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 689 (2006)

Economic Torts:  Gains in Understanding Losses, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 693 (2006)

Summers' Personal as Political: Reasoning without Effort from Stereotypes, 11 Cardozo Women's L.J. 529 (2005).

Comparative Fault to the Limits, 56 Vand. L. Rev. 977 (2003).

The End Game of Tort Reform: Comparative Apportionment and Intentional Torts, 78 Notre Dame L. Rev. 355 (2003).

In Praise of the Treatise Writer: Law's Special Knowledge, 25 Seattle U. L. Rev. 53 (2001).

A Celebration of Women, 11 Voices 21 (Spring 2001).

Citizen No-Duty Rules: Rape Victims and Comparative Fault, 99 Colum. L. Rev. 1413 (1999).

Wonderland, 14 Harv. Women's L.J. 333 (1991).