Tort / Personal Injury Law

A Research Agenda for Tort Law

Edited by Ellen M. Bublick · John C.P. Goldberg
New Arrival Edward Elgar Publishing April 2026

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ISBN-13
9781035344413
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
April 2026
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Research Agenda indicates key directions for future investigation in tort law, with particular focus on the ways in which laws could and should assign responsibility for injury and regulate safety. Bringing together leading international experts, this book maps out key challenges of emerging developments in tort law and theory.

Drawing on perspectives from a wide range of common-law countries, the contributing authors investigate the extent to which societal, theoretical, organisational, doctrinal and technological change will transform the landscape in which tort law operates. They explore how tort law is continually reshaped by litigants, lawyers, judges and legislators in response to the changing cultural, economic and political conditions in which it operates. Amongst other key topics, chapters analyse the ways in which AI will affect the application and development of tort doctrines, how tort claims play out in real-world litigation and how tradeoffs between tort law and compensation systems can address the problem of accidental injury.

A Research Agenda for Tort Law is a vital resource for law students and emerging scholars looking to further their understanding of current debates in the field.

Table of Contents

1.
The unexplored: a research agenda for tort law 1
Ellen M. Bublick and John C. P. Goldberg
PART I Doctrinal frontiers
2.
Tort law’s lifecycle: the process of recognizing new torts 8
James Goudkamp
3.
Evolving theories of damage or injury in the law of negligence 27
Donal Nolan

PART II Tort law in action
4.
Extend tort principles to tort principals 44
Anita Bernstein
5.
If injuries, compensation systems and injured people really exist: tort law in the injury compensation ecosystem 63
Kylie Burns
6.
The dark matter of tort law: exploring the lived experiences of tort litigants 89
Erika Chamberlain
7.
Streamlined procedures 106
Christopher J. Robinette
8.
Tort liability and insurance 125
Kenneth S. Abraham and Catherine M. Sharkey

PART III Tort law and technological and theoretical change
9.
How will machine learning, AI, and new information technologies jostle tort law? 143
Jane Bambauer
10.
Tort law in the age of artificial intelligence: opportunities and challenges 158
Goh Yihan
11.
Pouring new wine into old skins: the case of self-driving cars 180
Gregory C. Keating
12.
Improving nonconsequentialist accounts of negligence and risky tradeoffs 198
Kenneth W. Simons
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