Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Texas Torts Professor David Robertson Passes Away
David W. Robertson, the William Powers, Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law at the University of Texas School of Law, passed away at the end of 2018. The University's announcement is here. Thanks to blog founder, Bill Childs, for the information.
January 23, 2019 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, January 4, 2019
Torts Section Presents William Prosser Award to Ken Simons
From Chair Stacey Tovino's Twitter page. Congratulations, Ken!
January 4, 2019 in Conferences, TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Stapleton Gives Fleming Lecture at Berkeley
Jane Stapleton, the Master of Christ's College at Cambridge University, delivered the 2018 John G. Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law last week. The University's announcement is here. Congratulations to Jane!
November 20, 2018 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, November 11, 2018
2018 Torts Section Newsletter
Scott Hershovitz has released the 2018 AALS Torts Section newsletter: Download AALS Tort Section Newsletter November 2018
November 11, 2018 in Conferences, Scholarship, TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Ken Simons is the 2019 William L. Prosser Award Recipient
The AALS Torts & Compensation Systems Section has announced that the 2019 William L. Prosser Award is bestowed upon Kenneth Simons. Congratulations to Ken! From the UC Irvine announcement:
September 5, 2018 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Green to Receive 2018 McKay Award
Wake Forest's Mike Green is the recipient of the 2018 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, presented by the ABA's Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Wake Forest's announcement is here. Congratulations to Mike!
April 12, 2018 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, February 26, 2018
Stein Appointed to Israeli Supreme Court
Alex Stein, who teaches torts and evidence courses at Brooklyn, has been appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court. The news release is here.
February 26, 2018 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Allen Linden (1934-2017)
Allen Linden has passed away at the age of 83. A former Justice of Canada's Federal Court of Appeal, he was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015. Moreover, he was a distinguished torts professor who continued to teach the subject during his judicial duties. Linden studied with William Prosser at Berkeley, and became one of Canada's most-respected torts professors, teaching primarily at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the 1960s, he authored a study on compensation for automobile accidents which led to the adoption of a no-fault plan in Ontario in 1969. I never had the honor of meeting him, but I have heard numerous friends speak of him in glowing terms. Rest in peace. An obituary is here.
August 24, 2017 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, August 14, 2017
Northwestern's Shapo to Receive 2018 Prosser Award
The AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2018 William L. Prosser Award is Marshall S. Shapo, the Frederic P. Vose Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
The Prosser Award recognizes outstanding contributions in scholarship, teaching and service related to tort law. Nominations are made by fellow tort scholars, and the recipient is selected by the two most-recent Prosser Award winners and the immediate past Chair of the AALS Torts Section, with approval of the Torts Section Executive Committee. Professor Shapo's award, and his many contributions to tort law, will be recognized at the Torts Section meeting at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego, at 1:30 pm on Friday, January 5th, 2018.
August 14, 2017 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, March 20, 2017
AALS Torts Section Mentoring Program
The AALS Torts & Compensation Systems Section announces its new mentoring program. The Torts Section may be able to help if you are a professor who:
- is starting a career in torts or shifting to torts from another subject area, and
- lacks a torts colleague to discuss scholarship and teaching.
The Executive Committee and the Section at large have numerous professors happy to work with you. The goal is to match mentors and mentees based on specific areas of interest. To start the process, please contact the Chair of the Torts Section, currently Chris Robinette (cjrobinette@widener.edu or 717-541-3993).
March 20, 2017 in Scholarship, Teaching Torts, TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
AALS Torts Section Chairs 1980-Present
It has been an honor to serve on the AALS Torts & Compensation Systems Section's Executive Committee since January 2012. I rotated into the Chair position last Friday. I enjoy history, and began to think about the history of the Section. The Section was created around 1973; prior to that, AALS organized in "roundtables," which I take to have been less permanent entities. The AALS has a list of all Section chairs since 1980, which I reproduce below. The term is now one year, but it appears a two-year term was used during the mid-1990s. If anyone has further information about the Section's history and would like to share it, please comment on the blog (comments are not immediate) or email me.
Dominick Vetri | University of Oregon School of Law | 1/1/1980 |
Frederick Davis | 1/1/1981 | |
Thomas C. Cady | West Virginia University College of Law | 1/1/1982 |
Jean C. Love | Santa Clara University School of Law | 1/1/1983 |
Harvey S. Perlman | University of Nebraska College of Law | 1/1/1984 |
James A. Henderson, Jr. | Cornell Law School | 1/1/1986 |
Jean C. Love | Santa Clara University School of Law | 1/1/1987 |
David G. Owen | University of South Carolina School of Law | 1/1/1988 |
Walter Probert | University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law | 1/1/1989 |
Lucinda M. Finley | University at Buffalo School of Law, The State University of New York | 1/1/1990 |
Aaron D. Twerski | Brooklyn Law School | 1/1/1991 |
Oscar S. Gray | University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law | 1/1/1992 |
Diane C. Maleson | Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law | 1/1/1993 |
Jennifer H. Arlen | New York University School of Law | 1/1/1995 |
Richard W. Wright | Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology | 1/1/1997 |
Mark F. Grady | University of California, Los Angeles School of Law | 1/1/1999 |
Catharine Wells | Boston College Law School | 1/1/2000 |
Stephen G. Gilles | Quinnipiac University School of Law | 1/1/2001 |
Keith Norman Hylton | Boston University School of Law | 1/1/2002 |
Anita Bernstein | Brooklyn Law School | 1/1/2003 |
Kenneth W. Simons | University of California, Irvine School of Law | 1/1/2004 |
Peter A. Bell | Syracuse University College of Law | 1/1/2005 |
Richard L. Cupp, Jr. | Pepperdine University School of Law | 1/1/2006 |
James R. Hackney, Jr. | Northeastern University School of Law | 1/1/2007 |
Ellen Michelle Bublick | The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law | 1/1/2008 |
John C.P. Goldberg | Harvard Law School | 1/1/2009 |
Catherine M. Sharkey | New York University School of Law | 1/10/2010 |
Michael L. Rustad | Suffolk University Law School | 1/8/2011 |
John Valery White | University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law | 1/8/2012 |
Jennifer Wriggins | University of Maine School of Law | 2/14/2013 |
Andrew R. Klein | Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | 2/14/2014 |
Anthony J. Sebok | Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | 2/14/2015 |
Leslie Kendrick | University of Virginia School of Law | 2/14/2016 |
January 10, 2017 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, December 12, 2016
Gregory Keating Has Been Busy
Greg Keating has uploaded to SSRN to SSRN 6 p apers:
Comment on Gardner: Duty and Right in Public Law
Liability without Regard to Fault: A Comment on Goldberg & Zipursky
Comment on Avraham and Yuracko: Torts and the Paradox of Conservative Justice
Must the Hand Formula Not Be Named?
Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Only Game in Town?
Products Liability as Enterprise Liability
December 12, 2016 in Scholarship, TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, October 31, 2016
Gifford Named Jacob A. France Professor of Torts at Maryland
Don Gifford was named the Jacob A. France Professor of Torts at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law on October 27, 2016. The title had been held by Oscar Gray until his retirement, and Oscar remains the Jacob A. France Professor of Torts Emeritus. Don delivered a lecture entitled "The Stubborn Survival of the Steam-Locomotive Compensation System in the Century of Driverless Cars." He argued that changes in technology and the impact of technological changes on the economy were the most important determinants of change in tort law. He then explored why there was so little change in the fundamental substantive principles of tort law during the twentieth century and why the tort system had generally prevailed over attempts to enact alternative compensation systems.
October 31, 2016 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (1)
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
October 18, 1926
...is the day Oscar Gray was born. He celebrated his 90th birthday in Baltimore yesterday at a reception put on by his colleagues at the University of Maryland and the publishers of his treatise, Wolters Kluwer. Happy birthday!
October 19, 2016 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Lester Brickman Retires from Cardozo
Lester Brickman, who has written in mass torts and contingent fee reform, is retiring from Cardozo, where he was a founding member of the faculty. Cardozo's website has an announcement here.
(Via Olson/Overlawyered)
September 13, 2016 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Fleming Award in Torts Bestowed Upon Lewis Klar
University of Alberta Professor Lewis N. Klar is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious John G. Fleming Award in Torts, according to an announcement yesterday by UC Berkeley Law School. A giant in the world of Canadian tort law, Klar will deliver the fourth Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law on Wednesday October 26, 2016 at 11:20 a.m. in room 105 of the law school.
John Fleming was the 20th century’s leading scholar of comparative tort law, as perhaps befitting someone who was born in Germany, educated in England, served as a law dean in Australia and spent the bulk of his illustrious career at Berkeley. Professor Fleming’s treatise on The Law of Torts, drawing on the common law of a wide range of countries, is currently in its 10th edition. Fleming served for many years as the editor-in-chief of the Berkeley-based American Journal of Comparative Law.
Upon Professor Fleming’s death in 1997, the Fleming prize was created in his honor to be awarded bi-annually to an international scholar in tort law. Professor Klar is the 10th winner of the prize. Previous recipients include law professors Harold Luntz of Melbourne, Guido Calebresi of Yale, Stephen Todd of New Zealand’s UC Law, Basil Markesinis of Univ. College London, Robert Rabin of Stanford, Mike Green of Wake Forest Univ., Bill Powers of Texas, Helmut Koziol of Univ. of Vienna and Judge Allen Linden of Canada. Linden will travel to Berkeley to present the Prize to Professor Klar.
More recently, owing to the generosity of the Fleming family and Joe and Cathy Feldman of Chicago, Berkeley Law created the Fleming Lecture, to be delivered by the Fleming Prize winner. Professor Klar’s lecture is titled “The Ebbs and Flows of Tort Law: Reflections on a Half Century of Tort Law.” The Fleming Lecture is open to the public.
Professor Klar served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta from 1997 to 2002. He was admitted to the Bar of the Province of Quebec in 1971 and the Law Society of Alberta in 2000. He was awarded a Queen’s Counsel in 2002, and received the Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to legal scholarship from the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta) in 2005. In 2007, Professor Klar received the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Alberta. This is the university’s most senior and prestigious research award. In 2008, Professor Klar received the Hon. Tevie H. Miller Teaching Excellence Award from the Faculty of Law.
Professor Klar is the author of Tort Law, 5th edition, 2012, and a co-author of Canadian Tort Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 14th edition, 2014. In recognition of Professor Klar’s contributions to tort law, a Special Edition of the Alberta Law Review has just been published in his honour. Professor Klar was a contributor to the 10th edition of Fleming’s The Law of Torts (2011) as well as to Torts Tomorrow: A Tribute to John Fleming (1998). Professor Klar is an elected member of the American Law Institute. His works have been cited hundreds of times by the courts in every province in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
September 8, 2016 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Ralph Brill Retires from Chicago-Kent
August 30, 2016 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, August 29, 2016
Sugarman Wins Prosser Award
The AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2017 William L. Prosser Award is Stephen Sugarman, Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
The Prosser Award recognizes outstanding contributions in scholarship, teaching and service related to tort law. Nominations are made by fellow tort scholars, and the recipient is selected by former Prosser Award winners and former chairs of the AALS Torts Section, with approval of the Torts Section Executive Committee. Professor Sugarman’s award, and his many contributions to tort law, will be recognized at the Torts Section meeting at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, at 1:30 pm on Friday, January 6th, 2017.
August 29, 2016 in TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, July 18, 2016
Most-Cited Torts/Products Liability Scholars (2010-2014)
Brian Leiter has posted the most-cited torts and products liability scholars in the period 2010-2014. The data is drawn from a 2015 study led by Gregory Sisk.
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2016 |
1 |
John C.P. Goldberg |
Harvard University |
550 |
55 |
2 |
Benjamin Zipursky |
Fordham University |
470 |
56 |
3 |
Tom Baker |
University of Pennsylvania |
450 |
57 |
4 |
Robert Rabin |
Stanford University |
410 |
77 |
5 |
Catherine Sharkey |
New York University |
400 |
46 |
6 |
Kenneth Abraham |
University of Virginia |
350 |
70 |
7 |
Anita Bernstein |
Brooklyn Law School |
290 |
55 |
Stephen Sugarman |
University of California, Berkeley |
290 |
74 |
|
9 |
David Rosenberg |
Harvard University |
270 |
73 (est.) |
10 |
Michael Green |
Wake Forest University |
240 |
66 |
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in these areas |
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Richard Epstein |
New York University; University of Chicago |
2680 |
73 |
|
Steven Shavell |
Harvard University |
1340 |
70 |
|
Saul Levmore |
University of Chicago |
550 |
63 |
|
Keith Hylton |
Boston University |
440 |
56 |
July 18, 2016 in Scholarship, TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
AALS Torts Section: Call for 2017 Newsletter Items and Prosser Award Nominations
Lehman Professor of Law
March 29, 2016 in Scholarship, TortsProfs | Permalink | Comments (0)