Chair, Dan B Dobbs-Law | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Law
BiographyEllen Bublick is the Dan B. Dobbs Professor of Law and Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, and recent Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Law. She is coauthor of the leading U.S. tort law treatise, The Law of Torts, and the leading hornbook, Hornbook on Torts. Her books and articles have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and by courts in every federal circuit, forty-nine states, and many foreign jurisdictions. Bublick serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Tort Law, the leading scholarly journal in the torts field. She also serves as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement Third of Torts. She is a Contributing Editor, and former Section Editor, of the JOTWELL Torts blog. Bublick previously served as Chair of the Torts and Compensation Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Her other books include the leading Torts casebook, Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (with Paul Hayden); Dobbs on Economic and Dignitary Torts (with Jane Bambauer and Daniel Arellano), and A Concise Restatement of Torts (on behalf of the American Law Institute). Some of her work has been translated into Chinese.On the basis of her research, Bublick has been invited to speak to international audiences which include the European Group on Tort Law in Vienna, Austria, the Obligations Discussion Group at Oxford University in England, the Tort Law Research Group in Ontario, Canada, and the Research Center for Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China. She also has been invited to speak to national audiences, which include the National Institute of Justice, the National Sexual Assault Law Institute, the Louisiana Judicial Conference, and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. One of her innovative legal theories was expressly adopted by the Washington Supreme Court in Christensen v. Royal School Dist. No. 160, 124 P.2d 283 (2005). An honors graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School, Bublick clerked for Judge Walter Cummings on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago before entering academia. She recently created the Arizona Law Phoenix Program, which includes student externships, classes, discussions and events with many high-level judges, government lawyers, and practitioners.