From Tim Lytton:

Each May I organize a book manuscript workshop in the areas of torts, administrative law, or legal history. Georgia State University provides funding to invite 10-15 leading scholars from around the country for a one-day in-person workshop. Previous manuscripts include:

  • John Witt, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon & Schuster)
  • Randall Kennedy, From Protest to Law: Triumphs and Defeats in Struggles for Racial Justice, 1950-1970, 2023 (forthcoming Knopf)
  • Judith Resnik, Impermissible Punishments: The Problem Punishment Poses for Democracies, 2022 (University of Chicago Press)
  • Sarah Staszak, Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and the Decline of Public Governance in the U.S. (Oxford University Press 2024)
  • David Sehat, This Earthly Frame: The Making and Unmaking of American Secularism, 2019 (Yale University Press)
  • Eric Posner, The Demagogue’s Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump, 2018 (Macmillan)
  • Robert Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, 2nd Ed., 2018 (Harvard U. Press)
  • Mitchel Abolafia, Taming the Market: Crisis and Decision at the Federal Reserve, 2017, (Harvard U. Press)
  • William Novak, New Democracy: The Creation Of The Modern American State,1866-1932, 2016 (Harvard U. Press)
  • Jerry Mashaw,Creating the Administrative Constitution, 2010 (Yale U. Press)
  • Steven Croley, Civil Justice Reconsidered, 2008 (NYU Press)
  • Tom McGarity & Wendy Wagner, Bending Science, 2006 (Harvard U. Press)

I am currently seeking a suitable manuscript for May 2027. Authors must provide a substantially complete manuscript by mid-April 2027. If you would like to recommend a manuscript for consideration, please email me at tlytton@gsu.edu and include the title of the manuscript, a brief abstract, and table of contents, and the publisher.

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Christopher J. Robinette, an expert in tort law and theory, was appointed Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in 2021.  He teaches Torts, Products Liability, and Foundations of Tort Law Seminar.

Professor Robinette serves as the United States Representative to the European…

Christopher J. Robinette, an expert in tort law and theory, was appointed Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in 2021.  He teaches Torts, Products Liability, and Foundations of Tort Law Seminar.

Professor Robinette serves as the United States Representative to the European Group on Tort Law.  In 2012, Robinette was elected a member of the American Law Institute (ALI); in 2019, the ALI Council appointed him as Adviser to the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts.  Robinette also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Tort Law, the only peer-reviewed journal devoted to tort law in the United States, where he previously served as editor-in-chief. He serves as an editor of a leading torts treatise, Harper, James & Gray on Torts, and a leading insurance treatise, New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition.  Additionally, Robinette edits TortsProf Blog, a member of the Law Professor Blogs Network. He is an elected member of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law and a contributing editor at JOTWELL Torts. Robinette served as chair of the AALS Torts & Compensation Systems Section in 2017.

He has presented on tort law across the United States and the world, including the United Kingdom (Oxford), Poland, Austria, and Malaysia (where he won a “Best Paper” award).  Professor Robinette’s work has been cited by federal and state courts in numerous jurisdictions.  He is frequently quoted in the media in outlets such as the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Washington Post.

Before coming to Southwestern, Robinette was Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, where he won both scholarship and teaching awards on multiple occasions.  In 2018, he received the Lindback Foundation’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Widener, a university-wide recognition awarded to one professor per year.  Robinette was also a visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Washington University in St. Louis.

Robinette served on the Advisory Board of Salvation Army corps in both Charlottesville, Virginia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; he was Chair of the Harrisburg Capital City Region Advisory Board from 2010-2012.  He was a member of the UPMC/Pinnacle Health Ethics Committee for several years, primarily addressing end-of-life issues.

Robinette litigated tort and contract cases prior to becoming a law professor, experiences he uses to engage students in his classes.

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