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Torts in the Twenty-First Century brings together leading scholars from across the common law world to examine the state of the field. The chapters address new worries, such as recent doctrinal developments and the impact of technological change; a series of perennial problems that have long troubled torts jurists, such as vicarious liability and illegality; and a number of issues that cut across tort, including the rule of rule, tort law's treatment of disability and the impact of social change. By combining doctrinal, theoretical, and comparative perspectives, the collection offers a timely assessment of the challenges facing tort law in the modern era.

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Table of Contents

Part One: New Worries
1. Newcomer Injunctions Against Protestors and Travellers, Roderick Bagshaw and John Murphy
2. Internet-Inflicted Harms: New Wrongs or Just New Contexts?, Erika Chamberlain
3. Cars and Drones and Robots, Oh My! Tort Law as a Safety Net for Harms Caused by Autonomous Machines, Jodi Gardner and Alexandra Andhov
4. Three Dangerous Ideas in the Law on Liability for Omissions in Negligence, Nicholas J McBride

Part Two: Bigger Pictures
5. Dynamic Torts and Dynamic Facts? Social Change, Social Facts and the Evolution of Tort Law, Kylie Burns
6. Future Tort Architecture, Matthew Dyson
7. Tort Law and the Rule of Law, James Goudkamp
8. Reflecting on Haley Six Decades On: Current Duty of Care Conundrums Regarding Disability in Negligence, Rachael Mulheron

Part Three: Unresolved Problems
9. The Elusive Justification for Vicarious Liability – A Matter of Proof?, Christine Beuermann
10. The Illegality Doctrine in Tort: 'Characteristic English Impurity'?, Jonathan Morgan
11. What is Personal Injury?, Donal Nolan
12. Vicarious Liability: Three Historical Scenes, Christian Witting

Product details

Published 26 Nov 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 304
ISBN 9781509991976
Imprint Hart Publishing
Series Hart Studies in Private Law
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Roderick Bagshaw

Roderick Bagshaw is Tutor and Fellow in Law at Mag…

Anthology Editor

John Murphy

John Murphy is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Chi…

Anthology Editor

Craig Purshouse

Craig Purshouse is Professor of Law at the Univers…

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