From: Jason W Neyers
<jneyers@uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday 12 January 2024
17:36
To: obligations
Subject: ODG: Martha Chamallas on
"Trauma Damages" -- 12pm, January 19, 2024 (Zoom)
I post on behalf of Zoe Sinel:
Dear colleagues:
I am thrilled to announce the 2024
Tort Law and Social Equality Project Speakers Series. Our inaugural speaker
will be Distinguished University Professor Martha Chamallas from Moritz College
of Law at Ohio State University. She will deliver her talk, "Trauma
Damages," on Friday, January 19 at noon over Zoom.
This series will feature monthly
presentations from scholars around the world who work on topics situated at the
intersection of torts and social justice. Its aim is to foster debate and
dialogue within the academic community focused on these topics and cultivate
social justice tort theory as a distinctive field of inquiry. A full list of
presenters can be found on the Tort Law and Social Equality website (see link
below).
Presentations will be hosted
virtually by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and are open to the
public. They will last about 45 minutes and will be followed by a 45-minute
Q&A period. Sessions will be recorded and made available for subsequent
online viewing. Attendees are not expected to pre-read.
For more information on the Tort Law
and Social Equality project, see: https://www.tortlawandsocialequality.ca/
Please share this information widely
with your students. I hope to see many of you there!
Best,
Zo
Zo Sinel
Associate Professor
and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies)
Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
519.661.2111 x83832
Editor, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence
2024 Winter
Martha Chamallas
January 19, 2024, 12:00 p.m. EST
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88310780045
Trauma Damages
This paper
examines the concept of trauma as it relates to tort recoveries, featuring
three contemporary contexts: rape trauma, racial trauma, and birth trauma. It
explains why many trauma victims are unable to qualify for a post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, even though they experience many symptoms of
PTSD. It explores the obstacles to recovery for victims of chronic racism and
obstetric violence and calls for a recommitment to the eggshell plaintiff
rule and dismantling of artificial distinctions between physical and emotional
harm to respond to the intensified injuries suffered by marginalized persons in
underserved communities marked by violence, injustice, poverty and deprivation.
Martha Chamallas
is a Distinguished University Professor and the Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law
Emerita at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University. She is the
author of The Measure of Injury:
Race, Gender and Tort Law (with
Jennifer B. Wriggins) (NYU Press 2010), Feminist
Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions (with
Lucinda M. Finley) (Cambridge U. Press 2020) and numerous articles exploring
such topics as the devaluation of emotional harm, bias in the computation of
damages and the underutilization of tort law for harms stemming from sexual
discrimination and abuse.
Her most recent
articles propose a negligence framework for redressing rape and articulate the
contours of social justice tort theory. She is the 2022 winner of the William
L. Prosser Award for her pioneering work on gender and race in tort law. She
currently teaches torts at Fordham Law School.
Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
Law Building Rm 26
e. jneyers@uwo.ca
t. 519.661.2111 (x88435)
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