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Below, you will find the Tort Reports—podcasts created by Prof. Daniel G. Aaron’s Torts classes since 2023.

They cover an array of social issues that intersect with tort law, i.e., the law of injury.  Students are responsible for selecting topics, conducting interviews, and developing their podcasts.

 

Here are the podcasts for 2025

Law and Disorder: Build a Baby?
Polygenic embryo screening is an emerging science allowing parents to select traits for their babies, but how does tort law step into the mix?


Features Prof. Sonia Suter at George Washington Law and Prof. Yunlong Liu at Indiana University.
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Pockets or Policy
This podcast investigates some of the avenues through which one might effect environmental change in the legal system.


Features Prof. Brigham Daniels at Utah Law and Scott Stern at Earth Justice.
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Trial by Fire
A deep dive into how wildfires fuel lawsuits, shift liability, and reshape climate accountability.


Features Prof. William Boyd at UCLA Law, Prof. Brigham Daniels at Utah Law, and Eric Macomber at Stanford Law.
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Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates: Do Higher Verdicts Mean Higher Rates?
As the rising rates of medical malpractice insurance contribute to higher healthcare costs and questionable healthcare quality, it has become necessary to identify why rates are rising and what can be done to stop it.


Features Prof. Christine Stanley at Cincinnati Law, Eric Lopez at State Farm, retired radiologist Peter Dunner, and Colin King at Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas.
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It Is That Deep
This podcast examines deepfakes, their distinct harms, and the efforts of tort law to address their growing impact.


Features Prof. Ari Ezra Waldman at UC Irvine Law, Nick Hafen at BYU Law, and Thomas Kadri at Georgia Law.
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Policy Misconduct – Their Mistakes, Your Tax Dollars
This episode explores the effectiveness of civil litigation as a tool for holding police departments and officers accountable when internal systems fall short.


Features Prof. Sam Heppell at Utah Law, Ken Wallentine at West Jordan Police Department, and John Mejia at Christensen & Jensen.
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A Thin Line – Social Media, Eating Disorders, and the Law
This podcast explores how tort law can be used to hold social media companies accountable for perpetuating eating disorders and other digital harms.


Features Madeline Basha at the Social Meida Victims Law Center, Lexie Kite at Utah Law, and Elaina Efird at Efird Nutrition.
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Likes, Lies, and Liability
This podcast examines the viability of tort litigation against both social media influencers and platforms and overarching themes and limitations in the area.


Features Prof. RonNell Andersen Jones at Utah Law, Prof. Sarah Coyne at BYU, and Judge Blaine Rawson at Utah’s Second District Court.
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The Big Gulp: What Datacenters Are Doing with Your Drinking Water
This podcast explores AI’s use of water, the importance of water in Utah, and avenues such as tort law in addressing these potential harms.


Features Prof. Matt Tokson at Utah Law and Judge Blaine Rawson at Utah’s Second District Court.
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Duty, Disclosure, and Deliveries
This podcast examines how ineffective patient-provider communication during childbirth—particularly failures of informed consent—can lead to serious harm and explores how tort law and collaborative policies, like the midwifery model, can work in tandem to meet mothers’ needs and enhance overall outcomes.


Features Dr. Gil Siegal at UVA Law, Prof. Teneille Brown at Utah Law, Dr. Taylor Stoddard at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah, Les Weisbrod at Miller Weisbrod Olesky, and Dustin Johnson at Strong & Hanni.
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When the Crowd Turns Deadly: Liability and the Law
This podcast discusses the science behind crowd crush, the evolution of the case law, how to bring a crowd crush tort case, and how event organizers can mitigate the risk of injury.


Features Prof. Tracy Pearl at Oklahoma law, Prof. Keith Stills at University of Suffolk, and Paul Wertheimer at Crowd Management Strategies.
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Artificial Liability
This podcast explores AI and product liability with reference to Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc.


Features Prof. Sara Gerke at Illinois Law, Prof. Matt Tokson at Utah Law, and Meetali Jain at Tech Justice Law.
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Liability in a Can
Can, or should, there be tort liability for unregulated caffeine levels in energy drinks?


Features Judge John Bush on the Sixth Circuit and Lynn Davies at Richards Brandt.
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Here are the podcasts for 2024:

Artificial Accountability
Artificial Accountability examines the intersection of tort law, public policy, and the real-world manifestations of artificial intelligence.
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Boeing and Corporate Accountability
This podcast features a Boeing plane incident to explore the intersection of aviation safety, tort law, and corporate accountability.
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Tort Law in the Correctional System – A Heightened Standard
This podcast is a brief overview of the limits of tort liability in the prison system.
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Tort-ally Diddy
Tort-ally Diddy discusses the issue of Human Trafficking and the role that the law plays in anti-trafficking efforts.
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Tiktorts – Tort Law in a Digital World
We discuss some of the addictive dangers to youth posed by social media, and the challenges of the judicial system in holding companies responsible.
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The Gun Industry – Bulletproof Immunity
This podcast explores the limits, current state, and potential use of tort law as a remedy for gun violence.
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The Fall of Roe
This podcast is about potential torts pregnant people seeking abortion can employ to protect themselves or others from civil bounty hunter provisions.
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Mind the Pain Gap
This podcast examines how and why women’s pain is overlooked and underestimated in the medical sphere, and suggests some potential solutions for this problem.
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Echoes of Change
Echoes of Change explores the intersection of tort law and university policy regarding on-campus protests to understand the university's duty to its students, protesting or not, and who could be held liable.
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Housing aTORTability
This podcast is about the housing affordability crisis through a public health lens, and how tort law is likely more effective for individual cases than for addressing the root causes at a societal level.
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From Greenhouse to Courthouse
We explore the barriers that have traditionally stifled successful climate-related tort litigation, and whether those barriers can be overcome to drive a faster transition to a climate-friendly future by holding major greenhouse gas emitters accountable for their contributions to the climate crisis.
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Suing the Criminally Insane
Should people that escape liability for criminal action due to their mental illness be liable for those same acts in tort law? Today on tort reports, Taryn, Allison, and Zev explore the pros and cons of a civil insanity defense with the help of experts and restatements alike.
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How Money Has Corrupted Pharma
A discussion of the benefits and harms of pharmaceuticals, leading into potential solutions in tort law and public policy.
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Here are the podcasts for 2023:

A note from Associate Professor Daniel G. Aaron: We are grateful to Professor Jon Hanson at Harvard Law School, who began the tradition of Tort Reports™️ as part of a legal education that was more participatory and responsive to the issues facing the world today.