Ellen Michelle Bublick

About Ellen Michelle Bublick

Ellen Bublick is a leading scholar of U.S. tort law. She is Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU and author of the preeminent tort law treatise, "The Law of Torts," and the leading hornbook, "Hornbook on Torts" (with Paul Hayden and Dan Dobbs). She serves as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement Third of Torts and previously served as Chair of the Torts and Compensation Section of the Association of American Law Schools. 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. Her publications include works with Oxford University Press, Columbia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. Some of her work has been translated into Chinese. 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 Research Center for Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China, and the Tort Law Research Group in Ontario, Canada. She has spoken to national audiences which include the National Institute of Justice, the National Sexual Assault Law Institute, the District of Arizona Conference, 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 served as the Dan B. Dobbs Professor of Law at the University of Arizona and as Visiting Professor in the Business Law Program at the UCLA School of Law. The Sisk study of faculty impact has placed her as a top-10 cited legal scholar at ASU, and previously at the University of Arizona

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• Law School: Harvard

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