Rate My Professor Ellen Bublick

Ellen Bublick is the Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Duke University, graduating with honors from both institutions. Prior to her current role, Bublick was the Dan B. Dobbs Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where she also directed the Phoenix Program and served as Faculty Research Fellow. She has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law. Earlier, she clerked for Judge Walter J. Cummings on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and practiced commercial litigation at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago.

Recognized as one of the leading scholars of U.S. tort law, Bublick authors the preeminent treatise The Law of Torts, co-authored with Dan B. Dobbs, Paul T. Hayden, and others (Thomson West, 2023). Other significant works include Hornbook on Torts (West, 2016), Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (West Academic, 8th ed., 2017), Dobbs on Economic and Dignitary Torts: Cases and Materials (West Academic, 2nd ed., 2022), editor of A Concise Restatement of Torts (American Law Institute, 3rd ed., 2013), and forthcoming A Research Agenda for Tort Law (Edward Elgar, 2026, co-edited with John C.P. Goldberg). Her scholarship, encompassing business torts and comparative tort law, features in top journals like the Journal of Tort Law, Columbia Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. Notable articles include "Tort Common Law Future: Preventing Harm and Providing Redress to the Uncounted Injured" (2021), "The Rights That Come with Us to Court: No-Duty Rules for the Victims of Crime and Criminal Threats" (2024), and "What We Talk About When We Talk About the Duty of Care in Negligence Law" (2023). Bublick's books and articles have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and courts in 49 states. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serving as Advisor on Restatement Third of Remedies and Torts projects, co-editor of the Journal of Tort Law, and former Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Torts and Compensation Section. Recent contributions include a Yale Law Journal piece on tort liability for police arising from protests and a chapter on duty of care factors in Torts on Three Continents (Oxford University Press, 2024).