Betsy J Grey, ‘Removing Torts’, 62 Harvard Journal on Legislation 135 (2024). Writers who study torts tend to engage with liability as a force or vector that imposes consequences on parties accused of injuring others. For most of us in this field, liability means accountability or reckoning. This occupational interest in what tort does in action, or can do when it’s enlisted, can obscure the impacts of shelters from accountability. ‘Removing Torts’ marks Betsy Grey’s return to a source of tort nonaccountability that Professor Grey knows backwards and forwards, the statutory kind. This refuge has ample company in the land of shelters … (more)
[Anita Bernstein, JOTWELL, 21 July 2025]
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