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History

B.A. Oberlin College 1962. Phi Beta Kappa.

J.D. Harvard Law School 1966. Magna cum laude; Sears Prize (first in class first year).

Law Clerk, Judge J. Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C., 1966-67

Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, assigned to Neighborhood Legal Services Project, Washington, D.C., 1967-68.

Legal Assistant to Under Secretary of U.S. Department of Transportation, 1968-69.

Visiting Professor, University of Michigan School of Law, Summer 1972.

Adjunct Professor, USC Law Center, Fall 1974.

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Fall 1975.

Visiting Professor, Stanford University Law School, Summer 1977, Fall 1983.

Visiting Professor, University of Virginia Law School, Fall 1981.

Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University, Spring 1988.

Visiting Scholar, University of Hawaii, April 1994.

 

While at UCLA (1969- ):

Reporter, Restatement (Third) of Torts, January 1997.

Chair, Planning Committee; Moderator; Speaker; AALS Conference on Teaching Torts, June 6-8, 1996.

Advisor, American Law Institute, Project on Restatement of Products Liability, 1992-; Project on Restatement of Apportionment, 1993-.

Special Advisor, American Law Institute, Project on Enterprise Responsibility for Personal Injury, 1989-91.

Consultant, Brookings Institution, 1989-90.

Chair, Planning Committee; Moderator; Speaker; AALS Workshop on Torts, March 9-11, 1989.

Planning Committee and Speaker, AALS Mini-Workshop on the Tort Crisis and Tort Reform, January 3, 1987.

Speaker, Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, AALS Annual Meetings, January 1993, January 1987, January 1982.

Speaker, AALS Workshop on Torts, June 7, 1983.

Speaker, Torts Program, AALS Annual Meeting, January 1982; January 1983; January 1996.

Consultant, Rand Corp. Institute for Civil Justice, 1979-.

Consultant, Committee for Economic Development, 1986-87.

Consultant, California Legislature Joint Committee on Tort Liability, 1977-78.

Consultant, Association of Bay Area Governments, earthquake liability projects funded by National Science Foundation, 1977-78, 1983-84.

Consultant on Governmental Immunity, California Citizens Commission on Tort Reform, 1976-77.

Principal Investigator, National Health Law Program (funded by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity) 1973-76.

Consultant, Los Angeles City Council, 1972-73.

Board of Governors, Beverly Hills Bar Ass'n Barristers, 1969-72.

Board of Directors, Los Angeles Neighborhood Legal Services Society, 1969-71.

 

Bibliography

ARTICLES:

"Mixed Theories of Tort Law: Affirming Both Deterrence and Corrective Justice," 75 Texas Law Review 1801-1834 (1997).

"The Hidden and Fundamental Issue of Employer Vicarious Liability," 69 Southern California Law Review 1739-1767 (1996).

"Considering the Proper Federal Role in American Tort Law," 38 Arizona Law Review 917-951 (1996).

"Assessing the Adequacy of State Products Liability Lawmaking," Yale Law & Policy Review/Yale Journal on Regulation, Symposium: Constructing a New Federalism 359-370 (1996).

"Weaver v. Ward," 74 Texas Law Review 1271-1275 (1996).

"The Economic Loss Doctrine in American Tort Law: Assessing the Recent Experience," in Civil Liability for Pure Economic Loss 103-30 (Efstathios K. Banakas ed. 1996).

"Proposals for Reforming Pain and Suffering Awards," in Reforming the Civil Justice System 416-24 (Larry Kramer ed. 1996).

"Punitive Damages and Mass Torts: A Comment," 39 Villanova Law Review 415-431 (1994).

"A National Health Program: What Its Effect Would Be on American Tort Law and Malpractice Law," 79 Cornell Law Review 1339-1381 (1994).

"Reality in the Economic Analysis of Tort Law: Does Tort Law Really Deter?," 42 UCLA Law Review 377-444 (1994).

"Tobacco Liability in the Courts," in Smoking Policy: Law, Politics, and Culture 131-160 (Robert Rabin & Stephen Sugarman eds., 1993).

"Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Workers' Compensation: The Recent California Experience," 52 Maryland Law Review 983-1015 (1993).

"The Beginning and the Possible End of the Rise of Modern American Tort Law," 26 Georgia Law Review 601-702 (1992) (Sibley Lecture).

"Reviewing and Revising Dillon's Rule," 67 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1025-1032 (1992).

"Explaining and Justifying a Limited Doctrine of False Light Invasion of Privacy," 41 Case Western Reserve Law Review 885-919 (1991).

"The Myth of the Ford Pinto Case," 43 Rutgers Law Review 1013-1068 (1991) (Pfizer Lecture).

"Products Liability and Medical Malpractice in Comparative Context," in Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Innovation and Safety 28-80 (Peter Huber & Robert Litan eds., 1991).

"The Ethics and the Economics of Tort Liability Insurance," 76 Cornell Law Review 313-365 (1990).

"Browning-Ferris: The Supreme Court's Emerging Majorities," 40 Alabama Law Review 1239-61 (1989).

"The Character of Early American Tort Law," 36 UCLA L. Rev. 641-718 (1989).

"A Proposal for Tort Reform: Reformulating Uninsured Motorist Plans," 48 Ohio State Law Journal 419-42 (1987).

"Economic Loss in American Tort Law: The Examples of J'Aire and of Products Liability," 23 San Diego Law Review 37-78 (1986); also published in The Law of Tort 83-112 (M. Furmston ed. 1986).

"Directions in Contemporary Products Liability Scholarship," 14 Journal of Legal Studies 763-778 (1985).

"Foreword: Tort Scholarship," 73  California Law Review 548-54 (1985).

"The Advantages of Tort," in Australia Attorney-General's Department of Australia, Personal Compensation for Injury, 70-92, 171-73 (1985).

"New Products, Old Products, Evolving Law, Retroactive Law," 58 New York University Law Review 796-852 (1983).

"Deterrence and Punishment in the Common Law of Punitive Damages," 56 Southern California Law Review 796-852 (1983).

"Tort Law and the Economy in Nineteenth-Century America: A Reinterpretation," 90 Yale Law Journal 1717-1775 (1982).

"The Vitality of Negligence and the Ethics of Strict Liability," 15 Georgia Law Review 963-1004 (1981).

"Foreword: Understanding Products Liability," 67 California Law Review 435-96 (1979).

"Economics, Wealth Distribution, and Justice," 1979 Wisconsin Law Review 799-813.

"Contributory and Comparative Negligence: A Reappraisal," 87 Yale Law Journal 697-727 (1978).

"Urban Freeways and the Interstate System, 49 Southern California Law Review 406-513 (1976); 8 Transportation Law Journal 167-264 (1976).

"The Logic of Home Rule and the Private Law Exception," 20 UCLA Law Review 672-777 (1973).

 

 

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