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Critical Perspectives Reading (and More) List

Readings on race, class, sex, sexuality, and disability to complement the 1L curriculum

General Readings

Books

Fault Lines by David M. Engel (Editor); Michael McCann (Editor)
Call Number: K923 .F37 2009
ISBN: 9780804756143
Publication Date: 2009-04-24
As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, assignment of responsibility, compensation, valuation, and obligation.
Topics: race, gender, sexuality
Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law by Janice Richardson (Editor); Erika Rackley (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1280682450
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Topics: gender

Articles and Book Chapters

Torts and Discrimination
By Ronen Avraham & Kimberly Yuracko
Topics: race, gender, damages
Adam A. Milani, Living in the World: A New Look at the Disabled in the Law of Torts, 48 Cath. U. L. Rev. 323-417 (1999)
Topics: disability
Margo Schlanger, Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930, 21 Harvard Women's L.J. 79-140 (1998)
Topics: gender
Martha Chamallas, Race and Tort Law (July 27, 2020). Oxford Handbook on Race and the Law (Khiara Bridges, Devon Carbado, & Emily Houh, eds.)
Topics: race

Causation

Comparative Negligence

Michele Goodwin & L. Song Richardson, Patient Negligence, 72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 223-250 (2009)
Part III of this article focuses on medical trust breaches in the context of sex, race, and class.

Consent

Richard W. Bourne, Introduction: Five Approaches to Legal Reasoning in the Classroom: Contrasting Perspectives on O'Brien v. Cunard S. S. Co. , 57 Mo. L. Rev. 351 (1992).
Topics: critical legal studies, critical race theory, feminist theory, law and economics, and the "traditional" law school approach
Jay M. Feinman, The Ideology of Legal Reasoning in the Classroom, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 363 (1992).
Topics: critical legal studies
Ann Shalleck, Feminist Legal Theory and the Reading of O'Brien v. Cunard, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 371 (1992).
Topics: gender
Robert H. Lande, A Law & Economics Perspective on a Traditional Torts Case: Insights for Classroom and Courtroom, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 399 (1992).
Taunya Lovell Banks, Teaching Laws with Flaws: Adopting a Pluralistic Approach to Torts, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 443 (1992).
Topics: critical race theory
Richard W. Bourne, A Traditionalist's Approach to Teaching O'Brien and to Ideology in the Classroom, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 455 (1992).

Defamation

Anthony Michael Kreis, Lawrence Meets Libel: Squaring Constitutional Norms with Sexual-Orientation Defamation, 122 Yale L.J. Online 125 (2012)
Topics: sexual orientation

Discrimination

Mark C. Weber, A Common Law of Disability Discrimination, 2012 Utah L. Rev. 429 (2012).
Topics: disability

Domestic Violence, Rape & Sexual Assault

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Fright-Based Injuries, Outrage

Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment by Mari J. Matsuda; Richard Delgado; Kimberle Williams Crenshaw; Charles R. Lawrence Iii
Call Number: KF9345 .W67 1993
ISBN: 0813384281
Publication Date: 1993-06-04
Topics: race, gender, sexuality

Market Share Liability

Measuring Injury/Damages

Books

The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law by Martha Chamallas; Jennifer B. Wriggins
Call Number: KF1257.C43 2010 and e-book
ISBN: 0814790062
Publication Date: 2010-05-01
Topics: race, gender

Articles

California Bars the Calculation of Tort Damages Based on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
Short article on the California law, which is the first of its kind to expressly prohibit reductions of damages for lost future earnings in personal injury and wrongful death cases when those reductions are based on race, gender or ethnicity.
How Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Impact Your Life's Worth: Discrimination in Civil Damage Awards
By the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights

Wrongful Birth & Wrongful Life Actions

Wendy F. Hensel, The Disabling Impact of Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life Actions, 40 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 141 (2005).
Topics: disability
Alberto Bernabe, Do Black Lives Matter: Race as a Measure of Injury in Tort Law, 18 Scholar 41 (2015).
Topics: race, measuring injury