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Torts Resources

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions by Lucinda M. Finley (Editor); Martha Chamallas (Editor)
Call Number: KF1250 .F46 2020
ISBN: 9781108706247
Publication Date: 2020-12-10
This entry into the Feminist Judgment series rewrites both seminal and more obscure tort law cases, discussing tort law in the context of gendered harm against women. Topics include domestic violence, pregnancy loss, sexual harassment, and invasion of privacy.
The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law by Martha Chamallas; Jennifer B. Wriggins
Call Number: KF1257 .C43 2010
ISBN: 9780814716762
Publication Date: 2010-05-31
Analyzing a wide range of case law, spanning from Jim Crow laws to 9/11, this book demonstrates how women and minorities have been under-compensated in tort awards as a result of traditional biases.
Tort Norms in Context: Fostering Discussions About Gender and Racial Bias in Tort, in Integrating Doctrine and Diversity by Alena Allen
Call Number: KF273 .I58 2021
ISBN: 9781531017019
Publication Date: 2021-04-01
Chapter 9 - Torts. Includes articles and a selected bibliography of other sources on topics of diversity in tort law.

Jonathan Cardi, Valerie P. Hans & Gregory Parks, Do Black Injuries Matter?: Implicit Bias and Jury Decision Making in Tort Cases, 93 S. Cal. L. Rev. 507 (2020).
Alberto Bernabe, Teaching at the Intersection of Torts, Race, and Gender, 41 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2023).
Martha Chamallas, Civil Rights in Ordinary Tort Cases: Race, Gender, and the Calculation of Economic Loss, 38 Loy. L. A. L. Rev. 1435 (2005).
Martha Chamallas, Vicarious Liability in Torts: The Sex Exception, 48 Val. U. L. Rev. 133 (2013).
Martha Chamallas, The Architecture of Bias: Deep Structures in Tort Law, 146 U. Pa. L. Rev. 463(1998).
Jennifer B. Wriggins, Domestic Violence in the First-Year Torts Curriculum, 54 J. Legal Educ. 511 (2004).
Jennifer B. Wriggins, Toward a Feminist Revision of Torts, 13 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. & Pol’y L. 139 (2005).
Jennifer B. Wriggins, Constitution Day Lecture: Constitutional Law and Tort Law: Injury, Race, Gender, and Equal Protection, 63 Me. L. Rev. 263 (2011).
Jennifer B. Wriggins, Torts, Race, and the Value of Injury, 1900-1949, 49 Howard L. J. 99 (2006).
Ronen Avraham & Kimberly Yuracko, Torts and Discrimination, 78 Ohio St. L. J. 661 (2017).
Jody. D. Armour, Toward a Tort-Based Theory of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Racial Justice, 38 Loy. L. A. L. Rev. (2005).
Alfred L. Brophy, Reparations Talk: Reparations for Slavery and the Tort Law Analogy, 24 B.C. Third World L. J. 81 (2004).
Allison R. Ferraris, Note, “The Right to Protest for Right”: Reaffirming the First Amendment Principle that Limits the Tort Liability of Protest Organizers, 63 B.C. L. Rev. 1093 (2022).
Amy H. Kastely, Out of the Whiteness: On Race Codes and White Race Consciousness in Some Tort, Criminal, and Contract Law, 63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 269 (1994).
Lisa R. Pruitt, “On the Chastity of Women All Property in the World Depends”: Injury from Sexual Slander in the Nineteenth Century, 78 Ind. L. J. 965 (2003).
Maytal Gilboa, The Color of Pain: Racial Bias in Pain and Suffering Damages, 56 Ga. L. Rev. 651 (2022).
Tasnim Motala, Words Still Wound: IIED & Evolving Attitudes Toward Racist Speech, 56 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 115 (2021).
Harry J.F. Korrell, The Liability of Mentally Disabled Tort Defendants, 19 Law & Psychol. Rev. 1 (1995).
Margo Schlanger, Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930, 21 Harv. Women’s L. J. 79 (1998).
Robert H. Lande, A Law & Economics Perspective on a “Traditional” Torts Case: Insights for Classroom and Courtroom, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 399 (1992).
Ellen M. Bublick, Tort Suits Filed by Rape and Sexual Assault Victims in Civil Courts: Lessons for Courts, Classrooms and Constituencies, 59 S.M.U. L. Rev. 55 (2006).
Christina Tilley, The Tort of Outrage and Some Objectivity About Subjectivity, 12 J. Tort L. 283 (2019).
Martha Chamallas & Linda K. Kerber, Women, Mothers, and the Law of Fright: A History, 88 Mich. L. Rev. 814 (1990).

Online Resources

Law Teaching Guides, Module 11: Reparations, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR)

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