Diverse Voices in Tort Law

Kirsty Horsey is Professor of Law at the University of Kent. She has taught Tort Law and Advanced Torts across all stages of the curriculum since 2000.

1. Introduction: Why Recognising Diversity in Tort Law Matters - Kirsty Horsey


Part 1: Underexplored Ideas Within the Core of Negligence


2. Negligence and the Vulnerable Subject: Public Bodies and the Duty of Care - Nikki Godden-Rasul and C.R.G. Murray


3. The Politics of Pure Economic Loss – Craig Purshouse


4. Queering the Reasonable Person – Haim Abraham


part 2: How Negligence Norms Respond to Particular Harms


5. Reproductive Harm, Social Justice and Tort Law: Rethinking ‘Wrongful Birth’ and ‘Wrongful Life’ Claims – Julie McCandless and Kirsty Horsey


6. Coded Copper, Toxic Water. Multinational Corporations, Environmental Degradation, and Tort Law - Iain Frame


Part 3: Diverse Voices Elsewhere in Tort


7. Product Liability, Medical Devices and Harm to Women’s Bodies – Emily Jackson


8. The Tortious Response to Police Power, Misconduct and Abuse – Rita D’Alton-Harrison


9. Homosexuality, Defamatory Meaning, and Reputational Injury in English Law – Alexandros Antoniou and Dimitris Akrivos


10. Rethinking ‘Negligence’ in ‘Medical Negligence’: Can Trespass to the Person Torts Help Protect Autonomy? – Eliza Bond and Jodi Gardner


11. Image-based Sexual Abuse and Gendered Conceptions of Harm in Tort – Aislinn O’Connell