Professor Wright's teaching and research focus on domestic and comparative tort
law, jurisprudence, law and economics, and law and artificial intelligence. His published
work appears in several international collections of leading scholarship on tort law and
legal philosophy. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has been an
active participant in its revision of the Restatement of the Law Third on Torts,
including serving as an Adviser to the Reporters for the Restatement on Apportionment of
Liability. He also has served as a member of the executive committee and as chair of the
Section on Torts and Compensation Systems of the Association of American Law Schools. He
is a member of the advisory boards of the Journal of Tort Law, the Center for Justice and
Democracy, and the Torts, Product Liability and Insurance Law Journal of the Social
Science Research Network. 

Professor Wright received his J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from Loyola University in Los
Angeles, where he graduated first in his class and was editor-in-chief of the law review,
and an LL.M. degree from Harvard University. Before entering the academy, he worked in
the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.,
and as a legal adviser and project leader in the Office of Technology Assessment of the
U.S. Congress. Before joining the Chicago-Kent faculty, he was a member of the faculty of
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he received the Monrad
G. Paulsen Award for outstanding contributions to legal education. He has been a visiting
professor, fellow and/or lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of
Canterbury in New Zealand, the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina, the University
of Melbourne in Australia, the University of Palermo in Italy, the Universities of Gdańsk
and Wrocław in Poland, and Brasenose College and the Faculty of Law at the University of
Oxford in England, where he co-taught seminars in the Bachelor of Civil Law graduate law
program. 

Articles

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Liability for Possible Wrongs: Causation, Statistical Probability and the Burden of Proof, in Symposium, The Frontiers of Tort Law, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (2008)

Courts around the world are increasingly considering whether liability should exist in various types of...

 

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Hand, Posner, and the Myth of the "Hand Formula", in Symposium, Negligence in the Law, Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2003)

There is a striking incongruence between the discussions of negligence in the legal literature, including...

 

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The Grounds and Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, What Do Compensatory Damages Compensate?, San Diego Law Review (2003)

This article identifies and discusses the three principal limitations on the extent of legal responsibility...

 

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Justice and Reasonable Care in Negligence Law, American Journal of Jurisprudence (2002)

The academic literature generally assumes that an aggregate-risk-utility test is employed to determine whether conduct...

 

Books

Contributions to Books

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Proving Causation: Probability versus Belief, Perspectives on Causation (2011)
 

Causation in Tort Law, Causality (2009)
 

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Proving Facts: Belief versus Probability, European Tort Law 2008 (2009)
 

Other

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The Vitality of Joint and Several Liability: Brief Amici Curiae of American Law Professors in Support of Respondents (2002)

Tort reform advocates hoped to use a recent case, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v....