Anita Bernstein
J.D., Yale Law School
Feminist Jurisprudence
Legal Malpractice
Legal Profession
Products Liability
Torts
Articles
An Ally Can Connect Tort Theory to International and Comparative Law, 59 Texas International Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2023)
Renewing Products Liability With Semen, 73 DePaul Law Review 211 (2023)
Privity 2.0 May Be Even Better for Tort Defendants, 49 Florida State University Law Review 765 (2022)
BrooklynWorksAre You There, Law? It’s Me, Semen, 41 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 1 (2021)
BrooklynWorksQ: What is Tort? A: Categorical Hurt, 14 Journal of Tort Law 261 (2021)
BrooklynWorksWithout Religion W(h)ither Family Law?, 2021 Michigan State Law Review 1489 (2021).
BrooklynWorksThree Cohorts’ Vulnerabilities on the Issue of Sexual Consent, 73 Oklahoma Law Review 1 (2020)
BrooklynWorksThere’s Feminism in These Judgments, 61 Boston College Law Review Electronic Supplement 112 (2020)
BrooklynWorks(Almost) No Bad Drugs: Near-Total Products Liability Immunity for Pharmaceuticals Explained, 77 Washington & Lee Law Review 3 (2020)
BrooklynWorksNegative Liberty Meets Positive Social Change, 114 Northwestern University Law Review Online 195 (2019)
BrooklynWorksMinding the Gaps in Lawyers' Rules of Professional Conduct, 72 Oklahoma Law Review 125 (2019)
BrooklynWorks SSRNWorking Sex Words, 24 Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 221 (2017)
BrooklynWorksRape is Trespass, 10 Journal of Tort Law 1 (2017)
BrooklynWorksThe Reciprocal of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Company, 9 Journal of Tort Law 5 (2016)
BrooklynWorksCommon Law Fundamentals of the Right to Abortion, 63 Buffalo Law Review 1141 (2015)
BrooklynWorksJust Jobs, 45 University of Baltimore Law Review 209 (2015)
BrooklynWorksThemes, Doctrine, and Pedagogy in the 2013–2014 National Health Law Moot Court Competition Problem, 35 Journal of Legal Medicine 345 (2014)
BrooklynWorks SSRN OtherGender in Asbestos Law: Cui Bono; Cui Pacat, 88 Tulane Law Review 1211 (2014)
BrooklynWorksOnlookers Tell an Extraordinary Entity What to Do, 79 Brooklyn Law Review 381 (2014)
BrooklynWorks"Restatement Of..." Symposium Introduction, 79 Brooklyn Law Review 381 (2013-2014)
BrooklynWorksVoluntary Recalls, 2013 University of Chicago Legal Forum 359 (2013)
BrooklynWorksThe Trouble with Regulating Microfinance, 35 University of Hawai'i Law Review 1 (2013)
BrooklynWorks SSRNReparations, Microfinance, and Gender: A Plan, with Strategies for Implementation, 44 Cornell International Law Journal 75 (2011) (with H. D. Siebel)
BrooklynWorks SSRN PDFThe 2x2 Matrix of Tort Reform's Distributions, 60 DePaul Law Review 273 (2011)
BrooklynWorksToward More Parsimony and Transparency in “The Essentials of Marriage”, 2011 Michigan State Law Review 83 (2011)
BrooklynWorks SSRNCivil Rights Violations = Broken Windows: De Minimis Curet Lex, 62 Florida Law Review 895 (2010)
BrooklynWorks PDF“A Little Happier”: David Leonard as Co-Author, 43 Loyola Los Angeles Law Review 727 (2010)
BrooklynWorks PDFDistributive Justice Through Tort (And Why Sociolegal Scholars Should Care), 35 Law & Social Inquiry 1099 (2010)
BrooklynWorks SSRNFellow‐Feeling and Gender in the Law of Personal Injury, 18 Journal of Law and Policy 295 (2009)
BrooklynWorks SSRNPecuniary Reparations Following National Crisis: A convergence of Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality, 31 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 1 (2009)
BrooklynWorks SSRNPitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto for the Training of Lawyers, 94 Cornell Law Review 479 (2009)
BrooklynWorks SSRNLawyers With Disabilities: L'Handicapé C'est Nous, 69 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 389 (2008)
BrooklynWorksSanctioning the Ambulance Chaser, 41 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1545 (2008)
BrooklynWorks SSRN PDFSubverting the Marriage-Amendment Crusade with Law and Policy Reform, 24 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 79 (2007)
BrooklynWorksEnhancing Drug Effectiveness and Efficacy Through Personal Injury Litigation, 15 Journal of Law and Policy 1051 (2007)
BrooklynWorks SSRNIntroduction: The Plaintiff's Bar, 51 New York Law School Law Review 209 (2006) (with M. Galanter and T. Rostain)
BrooklynWorksAn Information Prescription for Prescription Drug Regulation, 54 Buffalo Law Review 569 (2009) (co-author: J. Bernstein)
BrooklynWorksKeep it Simple: An Explanation of the Rule of No Recovery for Pure Economic Loss, 48 Arizona Law Review 773 (2006)
BrooklynWorks SSRN PDFOn Nourishing the Curriculum with a Transnational-Law Lagniappe, 65 Journal of Legal Education 578 (2006) (from the Association of American Law Schools' Workshop on Integrating Transnational Legal Perspectives into the First-Year Curriculum, Annual Meeting, Torts Panel, January 2006)
BrooklynWorks SSRNWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Workplace Privacy, 66 Louisiana Law Review 923 (2006)
BrooklynWorks SSRNQuestion Autonomy, With an Asterisk, 54 Emory Law Journal 239 (2005)
BrooklynWorksMuss es sein? Not Necessarily, Says Tort Law, 67 Law and Contemporary Problems 7 (2004)
BrooklynWorks PDFWhat Clients Want, What Lawyers Need, 52 Emory Law Journal 1053 (2003)
BrooklynWorksProducts Liability in the United States Supreme Court: A Venture in Memory of Gary Schwartz, 53 South Carolina Law Review 1193 (2002)
BrooklynWorksThe Communities that Make Standards of Care Possible, 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 735 (2002)
BrooklynWorks SSRNConjoining International Human Rights Law with Enterprise Liability for Accidents, 40 Washburn Law Journal 382 (2001)
BrooklynWorksReciprocity, Utility, and the Law of Aggression, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2001)
BrooklynWorksRestatement (Third) of Torts: General Principles and the Prescription of Masculine Order, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1367 (2001)
BrooklynWorksComplaints, 32 McGeorge Law Revew 37 (2000)
BrooklynWorksForeword, Still Unfinished, Ever Unfinished, 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 641 (2000)
BrooklynWorksThe New-Tort Centrifuge, 49 DePaul Law Review 413 (1999)
BrooklynWorksThe Representational Dialectic (with Illustrations from Obscenity, Forfeiture, and Accident Law), 87 California Law Review 305 (1999)
BrooklynWorksAn Old Jurisprudence: Respect in Retrospect, 83 Cornell Law Review 1231 (1998)
BrooklynWorksFormed by Thalidomide: Mass Torts as a False Cure for Toxic Exposure, 97 Columbia Law Review 2153 (1997)
BrooklynWorksHow to Make a New Tort: Three Paradoxes, 75 Texas Law Review 1539 (1997)
BrooklynWorksTreating Sexual Harassment with Respect, 111 Harvard Law Review 445 (1997)
BrooklynWorksA Feminist Revisit to the First-Year Curriculum, 46 Journal of Legal Education 217 (1996)
BrooklynWorksBetter Living Through Crime and Tort, 76 Boston University Law Review 169 (1996)
BrooklynWorks"Weightier Than a Mountain": Duty, Hierarchy, and the Consumer in Japan, 29 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 45 (1996) (with P. Fleming)
BrooklynWorksHow Can a Product be Liable?, 45 Duke Law Journal 1 (1995)
BrooklynWorksHeirs of Leonardo: Cultural Obstacles to Strict Products Liability in Italy, 27 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 12 (1994) (with P. Fleming)
BrooklynWorksLaw, Culture, and Harassment, 142 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 227 (1994)
BrooklynWorksA Model of Products Liability Reform, 27 Valparaiso University Law Review 639 (1993)
BrooklynWorksPerspectives on a Torts Course, 43 Journal of Legal Education 289 (1993)
BrooklynWorksA Letter to a Female Colleague, 68 Chicago-Kent Law Review 317 (1992)
BrooklynWorksLooking at Europe for the Difference between Strict and Fault-Based Liability, 14 Journal of Products Liability 207 (1992)
A Duty to Warn: One American View of the EC Products Liability Directive, 20 Anglo-American Law Review 224 (1991)
BrooklynWorksL'Harmonie Dissonante: Strict Products Liability Attempted in the European Community, 31 Virginia Journal of International Law 673 (1991)
BrooklynWorksHow to Assess Litigation Exposure, 35 Practical Lawyer 13 (April 1989)
BrooklynWorksExecutive Targeting of Congressmen as a Violation of the Arrest Clause, 94 Yale Law Journal 647 (1985)
BrooklynWorksBooks
Questions and Answers: Torts (5th ed. 2023)
Understanding Torts (7th ed. 2023) (with John Diamond and Lawrence Levine)
The Common Law Inside the Female Body (Cambridge University Press 2018)
Questions & Answers: Torts (4th ed,, Carolina Academic Press, 2018)
Understanding Torts (6th ed,, Carolina Academic Press, 2018) (with John Diamond and Lawrence Levine)
Questions & Answers: Torts (LexisNexis, 3d edition 2014)
Understanding Torts, (LexisNexis, 5th ed. 2013) (with John L. Diamond and Lawrence C. Levine)
Understanding Torts, (LexisNexis, 4th ed.2010) (with J. L. Diamond and L. C. Levine)
Editor, Marriage Proposals: Questioning a Legal Status (NYU Press, 1st ed. 2006, 2d ed. 2008
Questions & Answers: Torts (LexisNexis, 1st ed. 2004, 2d edition 2010) (with D. Leonard)
A Products Liability Anthology (LexisNexis, 1995)
Contributions to Books
The Torts Scholar as Disaggregator, in Reflecting on Tort Law: Celebrating Jane Stapleton (forthcoming 2023)
Private Law as Unjust Enrichment, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law, 195-210 (Andrew S. Gold et al. eds., forthcoming 2022)
Tort as Yet Another Locus of Gender Injustice in the Distribution of Money, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory, 303-20 (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky eds., forthcoming 2022)
Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality Convergent in Pecuniary Reparations, pp. 291-323 in The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Engendered by Technologies in The Technology Of Humanity: Can Technology Contribute to the Quality Of Life?, pp. 12-113 (M. E. Mitchell ed., 2003) (revised; originally published in 80 North Carolina Law Review 1 (2001))
Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co.: Markets of Mothers, in Torts Stories, pp. 151-178 (R. L. Rabin & S. D. Sugarman eds., 2003)
Precaution and Respect, in Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle 148 (Island Press, 1999)
Product Dynamism and the Law in Meaning, in Measure and Morality of Materialism 113 (Floyd Rudmin & Marcha Richins eds., 1992)
Other
Three Deft Kicks to the Problem of Cyberbullying, JOTWELL (February 15, 2021) (reviewing Ronen Perry, Civil Liability for Cyberbullying, 10 University of California Irvine Law Review 1219 (2020))
BrooklynWorks WebShorter Works
Damages of Legal Malpractice That Go Unrecovered, New York Law Journal
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