Ellen Bublick is the Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Bublick writes the leading U.S. 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, 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 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 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). Her publications include works with Oxford University Press, Columbia Law Review and Vanderbilt Law Review, 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 been invited to speak 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 of Business Law at the UCLA School of Law.