Journal of Tort Law
| Discipline | Tort law |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Ellen Bublick and Greg Keating |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2006-present |
| Publisher | Berkeley Electronic Press (United States) |
| Frequency | Biannually |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| Bluebook | J. Tort L. |
| ISO 4 | J. Tort Law |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1932-9148 |
| Links | |
The Journal of Tort Law is a peer-reviewed law review covering tort law. It was established in 2006 and is published by the Berkeley Electronic Press.
Founded by Jules Coleman (Yale), the Journal of Tort Law Editors and Editorial Board include many of the leading tort law experts and scholars. The editors and editorial board are : editors-in-chief: Ellen Bublick, Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University,[1] and Greg Keating, William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy at the USC Gould School of Law and the USC Department of Philosophy;[2] Editorial Board: Mark A Geistfeld, Sheila Lubetsky Brinbaum Professor of Civil Litigation, NYU School of Law;[3] John C.P. Goldberg, Interim Dean and Carter Professor of Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School;[4] Ronen Perry, Professor and Director of the Aptowitzer Center, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa; Christopher Robinette, Professor, Southwestern Law School; Catherine M. Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, NYU Law; John Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School;[5] and Benjamin Zipursky, James H. Quinn '49 Chair in Legal Ethics Professor of Law, Fordham University. The Journal of Tort Law is the premier publisher of original articles about tort law, including articles by Guido Calabresi (Yale), Steve Shavell (Harvard), Deborah Hensler (Stanford), Ken Abraham and Ted White (Virginia), and many other luminaries. Bublick and Keating came to the Journal after serving as Torts Section Editors of the Torts JOTWELL Blog.[6]
A peer-reviewed academic journal, JTL is committed to methodological pluralism. JTL publishes cutting-edge scholarship in tort theory and jurisprudence from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives: comparative, doctrinal, economic, empirical, historical, philosophical, and policy-oriented. JTL increasingly publishes international scholarship as well. Its citation impact has been independently ranked among the top-tier of American law journals. According to the Washington and Lee Law Journal Ranking, the Journal of Tort Law has the highest impact factor among 7 journals specializing in tort law and was overall ranked 64th among 1087 law journals in 2010.[7] Moreover, JTL papers are available on Westlaw and can be posted on SSRN (as long as a cite to the full JTL article is also listed on the front page of the work).The journal is indexed in Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, Intute, Scopus, and Westlaw.
References
- ^ "Ellen Bublick | ASU Search". search.asu.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "Keating, Gregory". USC Gould School of Law. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "Mark Geistfeld - Overview | NYU School of Law". its.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "John Goldberg". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "John Fabian Witt | Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. 2025-02-26. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "Meet the Editors". Torts. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "Washington and Lee Law Journal Ranking". Washington and Lee University School of Law. Archived from the original on May 8, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2011.