Private Law Theory

Abstract:
Tort law typically is not what first comes to mind when discussing areas of the law ripe for social justice-minded reform. As Martha Chamallas writes, “[g]ender and race have disappeared from the face of tort law. The old doctrines that explicitly limited recovery exclusively to one gender have been either abolished or extended on a gender-neutral basis.” In my Tort Law course, there was little if any discussion of how tort reform could promote race and gender equality. I was excited by a book that promised an intersectional analysis of tort law, and for the most part, The Measure of Injury lived up to my expectations.

Stabile, Emily, The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law by Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins. (March 1, 2014). Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 27, No. 150, 2012.

First posted 2014-03-06 06:48:49