Recent Publications by Members

Kostal & E. Chamberlain, “The Reinvention of Canadian Tort Law, 1945-1995:
Jordan House as Case Study” (2023) University of Toronto Law Journal (accepted), advance access DOI: 10.3138/utlj-2021-0096.

JW Neyers & J Kiss, “Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World: The Revolution in Canada” in P Giliker, ed, Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World (Hart, 2022). (Forthcoming.).

Zoë Sinel, “The Place of Regret in the Law of Torts,” in Sandy Steel and Haris Psarras, eds, Private Law and Practical Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).  (Forthcoming.)

Zoë Sinel, “The Substance of Remedies: Review of Stephen A. Smith, Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: The Structure of Remedial Law” (2022) 72:1 University of Toronto Law Journal 125-147.

E. Chamberlain, “Could Ottawa Police be Sued for Failing to Arrest ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protesters?The Conversation Canada, 10 February 2022, republished in The National Post.

E. Chamberlain, “Evaluating Chief Justice McLachlin’s Decisions on ‘Residual Policy Considerations’ in Negligence” in Vanessa Gruben, Graham Mayeda & Owen Rees, eds, Controversies in the Common Law: Tracing the Contributions of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022) 73-98.

E. Chamberlain, Francis v Ontario: Can the Crown Restore its Own Immunity?” (2021) 99:3 Canadian Bar Review 645-667.

Andrew Botterell, Case Comment on 1688782 Ontario Inc. v. Maple Leaf Foods Inc., (2021) 69 CCLT (4th) 137. 

Andrew Botterell, “Understanding the Tort of Deceit” in S. Degeling, M. Crawford, and N. Tiverios, eds, Justifying Private Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021). 

Melanie Randall, “A Baffling Level of Negligence:” Police Failures in Responding to the Crime of Sexual Assault Case Comment on Rennalls v Tettney,”  (2021) 70 CCLT (4th) 108

Stockwell, R. Solomon, P. O’Brien  et al., “Cancer warning labels on alcohol containers: A consumer’s right to know, a government’s responsibility to inform, and an industry’s power to thwart” (2020) 81(2) Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs 284-292.

Erika Chamberlain & Stephen G.A. Pitel, eds., Introduction to the Canadian Law of Torts, 4th ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2020), authored by Andrew Botterell, Erika Chamberlain, Mitchell McInnes, JW Neyers, Stephen Pitel, and Zoë Sinel.

JW Neyers, Andrew Botterell, and Zoë Sinel, eds, Gerald Fridman and the Law of Obligations: Past, Present and Future (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2019).

JW Neyers, Andrew Botterell, and Zoë Sinel, “Gerald Fridman and the Law of Obligations: An Introduction” (2019) 93 Supreme Court Law Review (2d). [Also published in Gerald Fridman and the Law of Obligations: Past, Present and Future (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2019).]

Zoë Sinel, “Consortium as a ‘Right’ in the Law of Torts” (2019) 93 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 229-246. [Also published in Gerald Fridman and the Law of Obligations: Past, Present and Future (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2019) 227-243.]

JW Neyers, “Form and Substance in the Tort of Deceit,” in A. Robertson and J. Goudkamp, eds, Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations (Oxford: Hart, 2019).

Robert Solomon, Mitchell McInnes, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen Pitel, Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 10th ed (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2019).

Erika Chamberlain, Robert Simpson & Garry Smith, “When Should Casinos Owe a Duty of Care Toward Their Patrons?” (2019) 56:4 Alta L Rev 963.

Jonathan de Vries, “Negligence, Discretion and the Liability of Municipalities for Building Regulation: The Case for Increased Deference” (2018) 25 Tort Law Review 119.

Zoë Sinel, "What’s Your Damage? The Elimination of the Expert-Recognized Psychiatric Illness Requirement in the Canadian Law of Negligence: Saadati v Moorhead, [2017] 1 SCR 543" (2017) 24 Torts Law Journal 205.

Craig Brown, Insurance Law in Canada, 9th Student Edition (Thomson Reuters Canada, 2017).

Zoë Sinel, “Allan Beever’s One-Dimensional Tort Universe: A Review Article of Allan Beever, A Theory of Tort Liability” (2017) 27 New Zealand Universities Law Review 807.

Erika Chamberlain, Book review of Sarah Green’s Causation in Negligence (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) in (2017) 59 Canadian Business Law Journal 243.

Erika Chamberlain, “Clarifying and Enforcing the Fiduciary Obligations of University Boards of Governors” (2017) 26 Education & Law Journal 181.

Jonathan de Vries, “What is Reasonable Driving?  Driver Negligence after Fordham v. Dutton-Dunwich” (2015) 80:5 Without Prejudice 72.

Z Sinel & A. Schuurman, "Matter over Mind: Tort Law's Treatment of Emotional Injury" in Barker, Fairweather, & Grantham, eds, Private Law in the 21st Century (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017).

Z Sinel, "De-Ciphering Self-Help" (2017) University of Toronto Law Journal 31.

Erika Chamberlain, “Snooping: How Should Damages be Assessed for Harmless Breaches of Privacy?” in Barker, Fairweather & Grantham, eds, Private Law in the 21st Century (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017).

JW Neyers and Andrew Botterell, “Tate & Lyle: Pure Economic Loss and the Modern Tort of Public Nuisance” (2016) 53:4 Alberta Law Review 1031.

Erika Chamberlain, “To Serve and Protect Whom? Proximity in Cases of Police Failure to Protect” (2016) 53:4 Alberta Law Review 977.

Erika Chamberlain, Misfeasance in a Public Office (Toronto: Carswell/Thomson Reuters, 2016).

Erika Chamberlain, “When Unlawfulness Becomes Tortious: Misfeasance in a Public Office and Administrative Law” (2015) 44 Advocates’ Quarterly 489.

Andrew Botterell, “Rights, Loss and Compensation in the Law of Torts” (2015) 69 SCLR (2d) 135.

Robert Solomon, Mitchell McInnes, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen Pitel, Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 9th ed (Toronto: Carswell, 2015).

Zoë Sinel, “Is Personal Injury Law Personal?” (2013) 6:1-2 Journal of Tort Law 145.

Erika Chamberlain, “Classifying Tort Law Defences: (Why) Does it Matter?” (book review of James Goudkamp, Tort Law Defences, Hart Publishing, 2013) (2015) 56:2 Canadian Business Law Journal 314-23.

Erika Chamberlain, “Denial of (De)Mutual Benefits: Case Note on Mandeville v The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company” (2015) 16:2 Business Law International 169-176.

Erika Chamberlain, “Fiduciary Aspects of Misfeasance in a Public Office” (2014) 39:2 Queen’s LJ 733.

Professors Stephen Pitel, Jason Neyers & Erika Chamberlain, eds, Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013).

Stephen GA Pitel & Jesse Harper, “Choice of Law for Tort in Canada: Reasons for Change” (2013) 9 JPIL 289

Erika Chamberlain, “Lord Buckmaster: The Reluctant Villain in Donoghue v Stevenson” [2013] 3 Juridical Review 245.

Gerald Fridman, QC, Introduction to the Canadian Law of Torts, 3d ed (Markham: LexisNexis, 2012).

Jason Neyers, "Causing Loss by Unlawful Means: Should the High Court of Australia follow OBG Ltd v Allan?" in J Edelman & S Degeling, eds, Torts in Commerical Law (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 2012).

Erika Chamberlain, "Tort Claims for Failure to Protect: Reasons for (Cautious) Optimism Since Mooney" (2012) 75 Saskatchewan Law Review 245.

Erika Chamberlain, "Negligent Investigation: Faint Hope for the Wrongly Accused?" (2012) 39 Advocates' Quarterly 153.

Jason Neyers & Jordan Diacur, "What (is) a Nuisance?" (2011) 90 Canadian Bar Review 215.

Jason Neyers, "Explaining the Inexplicable? Four Manifestations of Abuse of Rights in English Law" in D Nolan & A Robertson, eds, Rights and Private Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011).

Professors Robert Solomon, Mitchell McInnes, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen Pitel, Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 8th ed (Scarborough: Carswell, 2011).

Professors Gerald Fridman, Andrew Botterell, Erika Chamberlain, Jason Neyers and Stephen Pitel, The Law of Torts in Canada, 3rd. ed. (Scarborough: Carswell, 2011).

Craig Brown, Insurance Law in Canada,7th student edition

Erika Chamberlain, What is the Role of Misfeasance in a Public Office in Modern Canadian Tort Law? (2010) 88 Canadian Bar Review 579.

Andrew Botterell and Christopher Essert, Normativity, Fairness and the Problem of Factual Uncertainty (2010) 47 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 663.

Jason Neyers,Tate & Lyle Food & Distribution Ltd v GLC in Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, eds., Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010).

Melanie Randall, Private Law, the State and the Duty to Protect: Tort Actions for Police Failures in Gendered Violence Cases in Sandra Rogers, Rakhi Ruparelia, and Louise Belanger-Hardy, eds, Critical Torts(Toronto: Butterworths, 2009).