The International Association of Defense Counsel has published Mark Behrens’s 2025 update on civil justice issues.
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Burch: The Pain Brokers
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch has authored The Pain Brokers, set to be released on Tuesday. The blurb provides:
Selling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking, never-told-before story of three women caught in a web of telemarketing scammers, shady doctors, and profit-hungry
Lerch: Final Injunctions in Tort Law
Aiden Lerch has published Final Injunctions in Tort Law with Hart Publishing. The blurb provides:
This book is the first considered study of final injunctions in tort law. It devises a novel taxonomy of such injunctions and explores the implications
Torts at the AALS Annual Meeting
From Thomas Kadri, Chair of the Torts and Compensation Systems Section:
The AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans is just around the corner, so we wanted to share details about our Section’s programming this year!
Our Section’s main program – Tort
Chung on Structural Defect Framework
Jon Chung has posted to SSRN Structural Defect Framework. The abstract provides:
This Article introduces the Structural Defect Framework (SDF) to address a critical failure in modern liability doctrine: the law’s tendency to misclassify harms produced by invisible structural
Abraham on Watching and Private Nuisance
Haim Abraham has posted to SSRN Private Nuisance, Looking Out, and Gazing In. The abstract provides:
Can looking into a neighboring property through its windows, or conducting one’s affairs in their own property in a manner that is visible
25th Annual Conference on European Tort Law
The Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz (ETL) and the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) cordially invite you to attend the 25th Annual Conference on European Tort Law (ACET), which will be held in
Rothman on Deepfakes
Jennifer Rothman has posted to SSRN Reframing Deepfakes. The abstract provides:
The circulation of deceptive fakes of real people appearing to say and do things that they never did has been made ever easier and more convincing by improved
JOTWELL Torts: Steel on Cornell on the Relationship Between Wrongs and Rights
At JOTWELL, Sandy Steel reviews Nico Cornell’s Wrongs and Rights Come Apart.
Gold on the Kinds of Justice in Private Law
Andrew Gold has posted to SSRN The Many Kinds of Justice in Private Law. The abstract provides:
Private law theorists often employ a single type of justice to explain the field. Typically, the chosen type is corrective justice. While