Very pleased to report that our Article, "Untangling AI Liability," co-authored with the great Cathy Sharkey of NYU Law School, will be published in the California Law Review. For those with access, you can find it on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Absolutely delighted that my former colleague and old friend, Liz Magill, has been named Dean of the Georgetown Law School. She will do a great job!

Absolutely delighted that my friend and co-author, Catherine Sharkey, has been named the winner of the 2026 Prosser Award, the highest torts award that the American Association of Law Schools has to give. lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/20...

Happy 4th of July from Charlottesville, home of Monticello and the University of Virginia, on the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. By the way, our guy wrote it.

Here's my latest, "The Liability Revolution That No One Saw Coming" 78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I just published this short Essay on the California fires: About the California Fires, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (Jan. 27, 2025), harvardlawreview.org/blog/2025/01....

Immediately after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lloyds of London underwriter and syndicate head, Cuthbert E. Heath, cabled his agents in San Francisco, "Pay all our policyholders in full, irrespective of the terms of their policies." Our nation's insurers should follow his lead in LA.

Here's my latest, "Free Speech, Breathing Space, and Liability Insurance," 111 Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2025): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to be on Bluesky as of today.