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Diversity & Racial Justice Resources

General - Articles

A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort
Leslie Bender
38 J. Legal Educ. 3-37 (1988)
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Out of the Whiteness: On Raced Codes and White Race Consciousness in Some Tort, Criminal, and Contract Law
Amy H. Kastely
63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 269-315 (1994)
HeinOnline

The Liability of Mentally Disabled Tort Defendants
Harry J. F. Korrell
19 Law & Psychol. Rev. 1-57 (1995)
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Living in the World: A New Look at the Disabled in the Law of Torts
Adam A. Milani
48 Cath. U. L. Rev. 323-417 (1999)
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Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930
Margo Schlanger
21 Harv. Women's L.J. 79-140 (1998)
SSRN            HeinOnline

United States v. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict
Debora L. Threedy
34 Am. Indian L. Rev 1-75 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Toward a Feminist Revision of Torts
Jennifer B. Wriggins
13 Am. U. J. Gender & Soc. Pol’y & L. 139-59 (2005)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Regulating Middlesex
Anne Bloom
Article included in Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice, pg. 137-155:

The Search for Racial Justice in Tort Law
W. Jonathan Cardi
Article included in Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law, pg. 115-124 & 303-306:

Causation - Articles

Injury and Causation on Trial: The Phenomenon of "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities"
Jack W. Snyder et al.
2 Widener L. Symp. J. 97 (1997)
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Comparative Negligence - Articles

Patient Negligence
Michele Goodwin & L. Song Richardson
72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 223-250 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Law and Contemporary Problems

Consent: O'Brien v. Cunard S.S. Co., 154 Mass. 272 (1891) - Articles

Introduction
Richard W. Bourne
57 Mo. L. Rev. 351-362 (1992)
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The Ideology of Legal Reasoning in the Classroom
Jay M. Feinman
57 Mo. L. Rev. 363-369 (1992)
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Feminist Legal Theory and the Reading of O'Brien v. Cunard
Ann C. Shalleck
57 Mo. L. Rev. 371-397 (1992)
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A Law & Economics Perspective on a "Traditional" Torts Case: Insights for Classroom and Courtroom
Robert H. Lande
57 Mo. L. Rev. 399-441 (1992)
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Teaching Laws with Flaws: Adopting a Pluralistic Approach to Torts
Taunya Lovell Banks
57 Mo. L. Rev. 443-454 (1992)
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A "Traditionalist’s" Approach to Teaching O'Brien and to Ideology in the Classroom
Richard W. Bourne
57 Mo. L. Rev. 455-499 (1992)
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Defamation - Articles

"On the Chastity of Women All Property in the World Depends": Injury from Sexual Slander in the Nineteenth Century
Lisa R. Pruitt
78 Ind. L.J. 965-1018 (2003)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Discrimination - Articles

The Common Law of Disability Discrimination
Mark C. Weber
2012 Utah L. Rev. 429-474 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Domestic Violence, Rape, & Sexual Assault - Articles

Tort Suits Filed by Rape and Sexual Assault Victims in Civil Courts: Lessons for Courts, Classrooms and Constituencies
Ellen M. Bublick
59 SMU L. Rev. 55-122 (2006)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Domestic Violence and the Per Se Standard of Outrage
Merle H. Weiner
54 Md. L. Rev. 183-241 (1995)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The First-Year Curriculum—Domestic Violence in First-Year Torts
Jennifer Wriggins
54 J. Legal Educ. 511-526 (2004)
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Domestic Violence Torts
Jennifer Wriggins
75 S. Cal. L. Rev. 121-184 (2001)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Fright-Based Injuries, Outrage - Books

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Fright-Based Injuries, Outrage - Articles

Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, and the Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Regina Austin
41 Stan. L. Rev. 1-59 (1988)
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Discrimination and Outrage: The Migration from Civil Rights to Tort Law
Martha Chamallas
48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2115-87 (2007)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Tort of Outrage and Some Objectivity about Subjectivity
Cristina Tilley
12 J. Tort. L. 283 (2019)
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Women, Mothers, and the Law of Fright: A History
Martha Chamallas with Linda K. Kerber
88 Mich. L. Rev. 814 (1989)
HeinOnline
Article included in Perspectives on Tort Law, pg. 305-21:

Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling
Richard Delgado
17 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 133-81 (1982)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Article included in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, pg. 133-81:

Measure of Injury - Books

Measure of Injury - Articles

United States v. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict
Debora L. Threedy
34 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1-75 (2010)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Discrimination and Outrage: Exploring the Gap Between Civil Rights and Tort Recoveries
Martha Chamallas
Article included in Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice, pg. 119-36 [see below]:

Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900-1949
Jennifer B. Wriggins
Article included in Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice, pg. 156:

Market Share Liability - Books

Market Share Liability - Articles

Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co., Markets of Mothers
Anita Bernstein
Article included in Torts Stories, pg. 151-78:

Wrongful Birth & Wrongful Life Actions - Articles

Do Black Lives Matter: Race as a Measure of Injury in Tort Law
Alberto Bernabe
18 Scholar 41-72 (2015)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Disabling Impact of Wrongful Birth And Wrongful Life Actions
Wendy F. Hensel
40 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 141-196 (2005)
SSRN            HeinOnline