Rate My Professor David Partlett

In 1986, Partlett joined Vanderbilt University Law School as Professor of Law, where he also acted as Dean (1996-1997), Senior Fellow at the Health Policy Center, and Chief of Staff for the Chancellor's Office Search (1999-2000). He received the Paul Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching (1992-1993), Distinguished Service Award (1996), and Thomas Jefferson Award (1998). From 2000 to 2006, he was Vice President, Dean, and Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. At Emory University School of Law, he served as Dean (2006-2011) and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law (2011-present). His areas of expertise include judicial remedies, products liability, professional liability, and torts; he teaches torts, remedies, and professional negligence. Partlett is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a member of the American Law Institute (serving on advisory committees for the Third Restatement of Torts: Liability for Intentional Conduct, Defamation, and Breach of Privacy), and the Selden Society. He has held visiting positions at institutions including the University of Sydney Law School, Melbourne Law School, Australian National University, Université Paul Cézanne, and University College Oxford. His publications include books such as Suing for Medical Malpractice (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Child Mental Health and the Law (Macmillan Free Press, 1994), The Right to Speak Ill: Defamation, Reputation and Free Speech (Carolina Academic Press, 2006), Remedies: Cases, Practical Problems and Exercises, 5th ed. (2020), and co-authorship of Prosser et al., Torts: Cases and Materials, 14th ed. (Foundation Press, 2020). Other works cover tort theory, defamation, privacy, free speech, and remedies, including articles like "BP Oil Spill: Compensation, Agency Costs, and Restitution" (Washington & Lee Law Review, 2011) and "Asbestos Wars: In Three Parts" (Washington & Lee Law Review, 2014).