About

Ellen Bublick is the Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is recognized as one of the leading scholars of U.S. tort law, authoring the preeminent tort law treatise, "The Law of Torts," and the leading hornbook, "Hornbook on Torts" (with Paul Hayden and formerly Dan Dobbs). Her books and articles have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and by courts in every federal circuit, 49 states, and many foreign jurisdictions. She serves as co-editor of the Journal of Tort Law and as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement Third of Torts. Bublick has previously served as chair of the Torts and Compensation Section of the Association of American Law Schools and as section editor of the JOTWELL Torts blog. Her scholarly work includes publications with Oxford University Press, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others. Her research interests encompass tort law, business torts, physical injury, safety, economic loss, products liability, and fraud. Bublick has been invited to speak to international and national audiences, including the European Group on Tort Law, Oxford University, the Research Center for Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China, and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Her innovative legal theories have been adopted by courts, including the Washington Supreme Court. An honors graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School, she 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 has held positions at the University of Arizona and UCLA School of Law.

Awards & honors

• The American Law Institute’s Restatement Third of Torts

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