Tortsprof Blog

Covers news, legislation, reform moves and other issues related to torts.

Author: William G. Childs, an assistant professor of law at Western New England School of Law, edits TortsProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

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Recent Posts from TortsProf Blog

Personal Injury Roundup No. 58 (11/20/09)
I hope your last week before Thanksgiving was a good one! Reform, Legislation, Policy Tim Lytton's guest post attracts attention. (Frank/Point of Law) (Lahav/Mass Tort Profs) Law Profs Max Mehlman & Dale Nance (Case Western)…
Introducing Guest Blogger Ben Zipursky
Monday's Guest Blogger is Ben Zipursky. Zipursky is currently the James H. Quinn '49 Chair in Legal Ethics and Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches Torts, Law & Philosophy, Advanced Torts…
Iowa Adopts R3 Positions on Duty and Causation
Last week, the Iowa Supreme Court decided Thompson v. Kaczinski, 2009 WL 3786632 (Iowa 2009), and adopted the Restatement (Third) of Torts approach to both duty and causation. The plaintiffs lost control of their car…
Illinois Rejects Tarasoff
In Tedrick v. Community Resources Center, Inc., Nos. 104861, 104876 (Ill. Sept. 24, 2009), the Supreme Court of Illinois explicitly rejected Tarasoff. Earlier opinions cast doubt on the acceptance of the famous California case in…
Another Wacky Warning...
Torts professors frequently become connoisseurs, or at least aficionados, of warning labels. Knowing this, a colleague brought me the warning label in his copy of Walther P-38 Pistol by Major George C. Nonte. The book…
Putting Words In Their Mouths
The New York Times reports that lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's largest bio-tech companies, authored statements on the health care debate for over 40 House members: The lobbyists, employed by Genentech and…
Proximate Cause?
As we struggle to come up with final exam ideas, TMZ brings us an interesting proximate cause issue. DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) died back in August from a drug overdose (according to the medical…
Guest Blogger Tim Lytton: "Is the Tort System a Litigation Lottery?"
The tort system is frequently described by critics as a “litigation lottery.” For example, in their best-selling book Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein compare medical malpractice litigation to a lottery based on the assertion…
Conk & Zhu on Chinese Tort Law
George Conk (Fordham) and Wang Zhu (Sichuan University School of Law) have posted to SSRN Tort Liability Law of the People's Republic of China. Here is the abstract: Discussion of the need to revise the…
Guest Blogger John C.P. Goldberg: What's Wrong with Torts?, Part II
What’s Wrong with Torts (II) In my previous post I suggested that torts are legal wrongs rather than moral wrongs, and that the concept of a legal wrong is not vacuous, but instead refers to…