Professor Cristina Tilley (Iowa Law) has posted to SSRN her article, The Power of All: Tort in the Age of Constitution, Marq. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024). Here is the abstract: Life in a ...

Tort law is animated by a simple and powerful idea: If you harm other people by failing to take reasonable care, then fairness requires you to compensate them.

The article discusses Flanders v. Goodfellow, where the court overruled its previous ruling that barred negligence claims against domestic animal owners. Emphasizing the flexibility of stare ...

Normally we wouldn’t wish trial lawyers on our worst enemy. But as anti-Israel demonstrations grow increasingly lawless, the plaintiffs bar could help. Why not hit protesters who break the law ...

Earlier last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in SodexoMAGIC v. Drexel University made this law—that the gist of the action doctrine does not bar a viable tort claim between ...

I'd love to hear what people think about this, and the broader pressure that negligence law (and, relatedly, product design defect law) imposes on companies to forbid anonymous uses.

A recent panel discussion on whether state and local suits against fossil fuel producers are preempted by federal law (and my arguments for why the answer is "no, they are not").

It is the largest tort reform effort for the state of Louisiana. "Today, we’ve taken steps to shield Louisianans from frivolous lawsuits driven by trial lawyers—using a data-driven strategy.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed two bills, SB 68 and 69, into law enacting tort reform. Here is what we know.

March 13 (Reuters) - It seems that even U.S. presidents struggled with professors' dreaded "cold calls" in law school. President Joe Biden shared a story about his first torts class when his ...