The Savory Tort

As the sun sets in the U.S. East, I was prepared to let Halloween slide by on the blog, even though so many great tort-related items perenni...

Most recently in June, I wrote about the faculty lawsuit against the University of Arkansas System to protect academic freedom, as the univ...

A reporter stopped me on a run last week to obtain my critical policy analysis of the bridge-replacement situation on the East Bay Bike ...

So this one was the vision of what happens if things don't go the way [philosopher Richard] Rorty wants. And in his view, Bill Clinto...

A Sandy Hook parent won a $450,000 defamation award in Wisconsin last week, when I was out of town.  The case is interesting not only as a c...

Maxeiner Last week the American Society of Comparative Law ( ASCL ) met at the University of Missouri Law School .  I was privileged to ...

Marcus Carmichael (Chris Turner CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) Whistleblowers are basking in an adoring limelight in the United States right now. T...

Just out from my friend, colleague, and fellow torts prof Andrew McClurg and co-authors, legal writing prof Christine Coughlin and torts...

One of my long-term favorite podcasts, Planet Money , last week tackled litigation financing.  We talk a lot in Torts in law school about Am...

Speaking from UNITEC in Tegucigalpa, Dean Castro Valle explained how her 2018 English-language article on comparative tort law ( featured ...