John C. P. Goldberg
Dean, Harvard Law School
Dean John C.P. Goldberg is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A leading expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, he co-authored Recognizing Wrongs (2020) and the leading casebook Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (2021). He has also published dozens of articles and essays in scholarly journals. He served as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Fourth Restatement of Property and as an Adviser to the Third Restatement of Torts.
Panel 1: Adjudicating Torts
Nora Freeman Engstrom, Moderator
Professor, Stanford Law School
Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and serves as Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. She is a nationally recognized expert in tort law and legal ethics and has written extensively on trial practice, complex litigation, and access to justice. An elected member of the American Law Institute, she serves as a Reporter for two Third Restatement of Torts projects (Miscellaneous Provisions and Medical Malpractice) and as an Adviser to two additional projects (Remedies and Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence). She has authored numerous casebooks, including a casebook with Michael Green, and published scholarly works in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the Chicago Law Review, among many others. In 2025, she received the William L. Prosser Award for distinguished scholarship in tort law from the Association of American Law Schools.
Alexandra D. Lahav
Professor, Cornell Law School
Professor Alexandra D. Lahav is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. A member of the American Law Institute, she is a nationally recognized expert on the civil justice system, complex litigation, and tort law, with a particular interest in methods for analyzing litigation risk and the history of products liability litigation. She is the author of the award-winning book, In Praise of Litigation (2017), as well as a number of other treatises and casebooks on civil practice and procedure; she has also written over thirty articles on class actions, multidistrict litigation, and tort law, many of which have been cited by courts and in treatises.
Joseph Sanders
Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Professor Joseph Sanders is the A.A. White Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches courses on torts, products liability, toxic torts, law and social science, scientific evidence, and juries. His scholarship and research primarily focus on toxic torts and the role of expert witnesses in court; his primary sociological interest is in the attribution of responsibility. He has published a variety of casebooks, articles, and other resources on products liability, many of which he worked on with Michael Green. On the adjudication of torts, he authored Differential Etiology: Inferring Specific Causation in the Law From Group Data in Science (Arizona Law Review 2021) and Do Courts Engage in a Sufficiency Analysis When Making Daubert Rulings in Toxic Tort Cases? (Connecticut Law Review 2018), which he co-authored with Michael Green.
Steven C. Gold
Professor, Rutgers Law School
Professor Steve C. Gold is a Professor of Law and Judge Raymond J. Dearie Scholar at Rutgers Law School. Prior to joining Rutgers’ faculty, he was an attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment & Natural Resources Division for nearly 20 years, where he litigated trials, appeals, and settlements under several federal environmental statutes and was recognized with numerous awards. His scholarship, which primarily focuses on toxic torts and hazardous substance regulation and cleanup, has appeared in law reviews including the Harvard Environmental Law Review and the Washington & Lee Law Review and has been cited by numerous federal, state, and foreign courts, including four U.S. Courts of Appeals, the supreme courts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas, the supreme courts of the United Kingdom and Israel, and the trial division of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. He has co-authored several works with Michael Green, including a casebook on Toxic and Environmental Torts, an entry on toxic torts in the Encyclopedia of Toxicology, and the “Reference Guide on Epidemiology” in the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
Panel 2: Restating Responsibility
Jonathan Cardi, Moderator
Professor, Wake Forest University School of Law
Professor Jonathan Cardi is the Judge Donald L. Smith Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. His scholarship focuses primarily on torts doctrine, with an emphasis on transparency, internal coherence, and pragmatic justice. Professor Cardi also engages in experimental empirical research. He is the co-author of casebooks in torts, products liability, and remedies, several of which he collaborated on with Michael Green, and is co-editor of a book on the intersection of race, social science, and the law. He is a member of the American Law Institute, serving as Associate Reporter for the Third Restatement of Torts: Intentional Torts and as Advisor to the projects on Remedies and Miscellaneous Provisions.
Martha Chamallas
Professor, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Professor Martha Chamallas is a Distinguished University Professor and Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law emerita at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She is a leading scholar in torts, employment discrimination law, and legal issues affecting women. Her scholarship focuses primarily on gender, race and social justice issues in tort law; she is the co-author of The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law (2010) and Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Torts Opinions (2020), and has written multiple treatises and more than 60 articles, chapters, and essays in law journals such as the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has participated on Gender and Race Bias Task Forces for the states of Iowa and Pennsylvania. In 2022, she received the William L. Prosser Award for distinguished scholarship in tort law from the Association of American Law Schools. She was Michael Green’s colleague at the University of Iowa from 1981 to 1994.
Ellen Bublick
Professor, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Professor Ellen Bublick is the Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She is one of the nation’s leading torts scholars, co-authoring the preeminent tort law treatise The Law of Torts (2011) and the leading hornbook Hornbook on Torts (2016). Her books and articles, which have been published in Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others, have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and by courts in every federal circuit, 49 states, and many foreign jurisdictions. She has been invited to speak to a variety of international audiences, including the European Group on Tort Law in Vienna, Austria; nationally, she has been invited to speak at the National Institute of Justice and the National Sexual Assault Law Institute. One of her innovative legal theorieswas expressly adopted by the Washington Supreme Court in Christensen v. Royal School Dist. No. 160, 124 P.2d 283 (2005). She serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Tort Law, the leading scholarly journal in the torts field, and as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Third Restatement of Torts.
Mark Geistfeld
Professor, New York University School of Law
Professor Mark Geistfeld is the Sheila Lubetsky Birnbaum Professor of Civil Litigation at New York University School of Law. His scholarship and research focus primarily on torts, products liability, and insurance law, with an emphasis on common law rules governing the prevention of and compensation for physical harms. He has authored or co-authored five books, including Product Liability Law (2021) and Principles of Products Liability (2021), along with over 50 articles and book chapters, which explain the important doctrines of tort law by reference to a compensatory tort right that unifies the primary liability functions of deterrence and compensation. He has also written extensively on insurance considerations in tort liability as well as on the potential applications of tort liability to AI-caused harms. He is the Reporter for the newly launched project by the American Law Institute, Principles of the Law: Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence.
Panel 3: Accountability in Complex Systems
Sidney A. Shapiro, Moderator
Professor, Wake Forest University School of Law
Professor Sidney A. Shapiro is the Frank U. Fletcher Chair in Administrative Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. He is one of the country’s leading experts in administrative procedure and regulatory policy and serves as the Board Chair of the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit research and educational organization of university-affiliated academics. He is the co-author of How Government Built America (2024), which presents a novel history of America from the colonial period to the present and establishes the government as an essential partner with the market system in building the country. He is also the co-author of Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law (2020) and Achieving Democracy: The Future of Progressive Regulation (2014), and has written or co-written eight other books, eight book chapters, and over fifty-five articles.
Kenneth S. Abraham
Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
Professor Kenneth S. Abraham is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. As one of the nation’s leading scholars in torts and insurance law, he has authored six books and more than 90 academic articles. He has been a consulting counsel and an expert witness in a variety of major insurance coverage cases involving commercial general liability, directors and officers liability, environmental cleanup liability, toxic tort and products liability, and property insurance claims. He has also served as an arbitrator for the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, resolving over 100 claims by women seeking damages for injuries caused by the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device, both in the United States and Europe. A lifetime member of the American Law Institute, he served on the American Law Institute Council for 20 years, was the Senior Adviser to the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance, and is an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Third Restatement of Torts. In 2024, he received the William L. Prosser Award for distinguished scholarship in tort law from the Association of American Law Schools.
Robert L. Rabin
Professor, Stanford Law School
Professor Robert L. Rabin is the A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. An expert on torts and legislative compensation schemes, he is highly regarded for his extensive knowledge of the history and institutional dynamics of accident law. He is a prolific author on issues relating to the functions of the tort system and alternative regulatory schemes and is the co-editor of a classic casebook on tort law. He served as an Adviser on the American Law Institute’s Third Restatement of Torts and Third Restatement of Products Liability. He was also the program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation, Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Compensation and Liability for Product and Process Injuries, and Reporter for the American Bar Association Action Commission to Improve the Tort Liability System. He received the William L. Prosser Award for distinguished scholarship in tort law from the Association of American Law Schools in 2008 and the Robert B. McKay Award from the American Bar Association for Contributions to Torts and Insurance Fields in 1997.
Catherine M. Sharkey
Professor, New York University School of Law
Professor Catherine M. Sharkey is the Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at New York University School of Law. She is a leading scholar in torts, business torts, products liability, artificial intelligence, public nuisance, punitive damages, and federal preemption of state tort law. She is co-author of Cases and Materials on Torts (2024) and Business, Defamation, and Privacy Torts (2025), and co-editor of Foundations of Tort Law (2009). She is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a member of its Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence in Federal Agencies, author of Algorithmic Tools in Retrospective Review (2023), and co-author of Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies (2020). Sharkey is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an Adviser to the Third Restatement’s projects on Economic Harm, Remedies, and Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence. She received the William L. Prosser Award for distinguished scholarship in tort law from the Association of American Law Schools in 2026 and the Robert B. McKay Award from the American Bar Association for Contributions to Torts and Insurance Fields in 2023. She joined Michael Green as a founding member from North America of the World Tort Law Society.
