Scholars of Tort Law

This handsome, fascinating and formidably well-researched volume should be essential reading for anyone who teaches tort law this volume succeeds splendidly in enabling us to enter into the minds of our great predecessors in thinking about tort law. -- Nicholas J McBride, Pembroke College * Cambridge Law Journal * [The book] offers much food for thought in terms of how legal scholarship has served to shape and influence the law. -- Mark Wilde, University of Reading * The Journal of Legal History * Scholars of Tort Law is essential reading for those with a deep interest in the subject matter. -- Ken Oliphant * European Tort Law Yearbook * The book provides the reader with fascinating accounts of influential tort scholarship, with insights that both humanise the authors whose work is already familiar and demystify work that may seem too voluminous or daunting to tackle. -- Barbara McDonald, The University of Sydney Law School * Sydney Law Review * This is an important and solid collection of essays, especially for students, practitioners, and judges. -- Mary Hemmings, Thompson Rivers University * Canadian Law Library Review * This volume brings together some accounts of significant tort scholars. It is an intriguing collection in that it does what I consider to be the best form of intellectual biography, including elements of the life that contributed to the intellectual context of the scholar while focusing on the impact and structure of their work. -- Prue Vines * University of New South Wales Law Journal * This volume takes a refreshingly different approach to studying the making of tort law. Its goal is to shed new light on the development of tort law as an intellectual domain and not simply a body of rules, and to demonstrate that legal scholars played a decisive role in that development. It succeeds admirably on both fronts Every chapter is richly researched and offers much food for thought. However, this is also a book that is greater than the sum of its parts. Its value lies not just in the information it presents about individual scholars and their contribution to the intellectual development of tort, but also in the broader themes that emerge when the chapters are read together. -- TT Arvind, University of York * Journal of Professional Negligence *

James Goudkamp is Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.

1. Pioneers, Consolidators and Iconoclasts: The Story of Tort Scholarship James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan 2. Thomas McIntyre Cooley (18241898) and Oliver Wendell Holmes (18411935): The Arc of American Tort Theory John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky 3. Professor Sir Frederick Pollock (18451937): Jurist as Mayfly Robert Stevens 4. Professor Sir John Salmond (18621924): An Englishman Abroad 3 Mark Lunney 5. Professor Francis Hermann Bohlen (18681942) Michael D Green 6. Professor Sir Percy Winfield (18781953) Donal Nolan 7. Professor Leon Green (18881979): Word Magic and the Regenerative Power of Law Jenny Steele 8. Professor William Lloyd Prosser (18981972) Christopher J Robinette 9. Professor Fleming James Jr (19041981) Guido Calabresi 10. Professor John G Fleming (19191997): A Sense of Fluidity Paul Mitchell 11. Professor Patrick Atiyah (19312018) James Goudkamp 12. Mr Tony Weir (19362011) Paula Giliker 13. Law, Fact and Process in Common Law Tort Scholarship Peter Cane