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December 17, 2024

Welcome to the Tort Reports™️ 2024! This project requires students to work collaboratively to produce a short, compelling podcast documentary that explores the intersection of tort law and their chosen topic. Our law students have worked extremely hard to produce interesting and incisive commentaries on tort law and society.

 

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.