From: Jason W Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca>

Sent: Friday 27 March 2026 13:50

To: obligations

Subject: ODG: A Research Agenda for Tort Law

Dear Colleagues:

Congratulations go out to ODGers, Ellie Bublick and John Goldberg on the publication of their edited collection A Research Agenda for Tort Law | Elgar Online: The online content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing.

Here is the description:

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.

Here is the 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

Ellen M. Bublick and John C.P. Goldberg - 9781035344420 Downloaded from https://www.elgaronline.com/ at 03/27/2026 01:46:10PM via University of Western Ontario A research agenda for tort law viii

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

Yihan Goh

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

Jason Neyers
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