Ellen Bublick is a Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Law and the Dan B. Dobbs Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.  She teaches Business Torts at UCLA, and also teaches Torts, Economic and Dignitary Torts, Comparative Tort Law, Employment Law and Civil Rights. She has been named “Professor of the Year” multiple times. Her research focuses on many forms of Tort law.

Bublick received her A.B. degree from Duke University where she received the Alice Baldwin Scholarship for Academic Achievement & Community Commitment. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she won the Williston Prize, served as Essays Editor of the Harvard Women’s Law Journal, taught Legal Writing, and served as a research assistant to Professors David Charny, Susan Estrich, Kathleen Sullivan and Larry Tribe.  After law school she clerked for Judge Walter Cummings on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago before entering academia.

A noted scholar in tort law, Bublick is coauthor of the leading U.S. tort law treatise and hornbook, THE LAW OF TORTS and HORNBOOK ON TORTS (both with Dan Dobbs and Paul Hayden). Her books have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and by courts in every federal circuit, forty-nine states, and many foreign jurisdictions. Bublick also writes and lectures about tort law, most recently about private actions for public nuisance, reproductive harms, and tort duties. She serves as an Advisor for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts and Restatement (Third) of Remedies. She also serves as a Contributing Editor, and former Section Editor, of the JOTWELL Torts blog (with Greg Keating). She previously served as Chair of the Torts and Compensation Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Her other books include the leading casebook, TORTS AND COMPENSATION: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INJURY; DOBBS ON ECONOMIC AND DIGNITARY TORTS (with Jane Bambauer and Daniel Arellano); and A CONCISE RESTATEMENT OF TORTS (on behalf of the American Law Institute).

On the basis of her research, Bublick has been invited to speak to international audiences which include the Obligations Discussion Group at Oxford University, the European Group on Tort Law in Vienna, Austria, the Tort Law Research Group in Ontario, Canada, and the Research Center for Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China. She has been invited to speak to national audiences, which include the National Institute of Justice, The Louisiana Judicial Conference, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and the National Sexual Assault Law Institute. One of her innovative legal theories, barring comparative fault of a sexual assault victim, was expressly adopted by the Washington Supreme Court in Christensen v. Royal School Dist. No, 160, 124 P.2d 283 (2005).