Ellie Bublick and John Goldberg have posted to SSRN the introduction to their forthcoming volume, A Research Agenda for Tort Law. The abstract provides:
Tort law is a dynamic body of doctrine that both shapes, and is shaped by, technological, institutional, and moral change. In their introduction to A Research Agenda for Tort Law, Editors Ellen M. Bublick, Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, and John C. P. Goldberg, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, map the contributions of leading torts scholars to questions concerning future directions for tort law scholarship. The volume’s three parts—Doctrinal Frontiers, Tort Law in Action, and Tort Law and Technological and Theoretical Change—address issues ranging from how courts identify new injuries and new torts, to which types of institutions and actors should address wrongs and harm, to the ways in which legal doctrines and educational institutions should accommodate artificial intelligence. The Editors suggest that, as in times past, tort experts of the future will at once be attentive to longstanding core principles of tort law and attuned to evolving technology and norms.