Anita Bernstein

Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law

250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 780-7934 |  Email
Areas of Expertise
Torts
Legal Profession
Feminist Jurisprudence
Family Law
Products Liability
Education
B.A., Queens College
J.D., Yale Law School

Articles

  • Real Remedies for Virtual Injuries, 90 North Carolina Law Review __ (2012)
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  • Reparations, Microfinance, and Gender: A Plan, with Strategies for Implementation, 44 Cornell International Law Journal 75 (2011) (with H. D. Siebel)
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  • Toward More Parsimony and Transparency in “The Essentials of Marriage”, 2011 Michigan State Law Review 83 (2011)
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  • Teaching Torts: Rivalry as Pedagogy, 18 Torts Law Journal 187 (2010)
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  • “A Little Happier”: David Leonard as Co-Author, 43 Loyola Los Angeles Law Review 727 (2010)
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  • Distributive Justice Through Tort (And Why Sociolegal Scholars Should Care), 35 Law & Social Inquiry 1099 (2010)
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  • Fellow‐Feeling and Gender in the Law of Personal Injury, 18 Journal of Law and Policy 295 (2009)
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  • Pecuniary Reparations Following National Crisis: A convergence of Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality, 31 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 1 (2009)
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  • Implied Reverse Preemption, 74 Brooklyn Law Review 669 (2009)
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  • Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto for the Training of Lawyers, 94 Cornell Law Review 479 (2009)
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  • Asbestos Achievements, 37 Southwestern University Law Review 691 (2008)
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  • Lawyers With Disabilities: L'Handicapé C'est Nous, 69 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 389 (2008)
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  • Sanctioning the Ambulance Chaser, 41 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1545 (2008)
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  • Enhancing Drug Effectiveness and Efficacy Through Personal Injury Litigation, 15 Journal of Law and Policy 1051 (2007)
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  • Subverting the Marriage-Amendment Crusade with Law and Policy Reform, 24 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 79 (2007)
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  • An Information Prescription for Prescription Drug Regulation, 54 Buffalo Law Review 569 (2009) (co-author: J. Bernstein)
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  • Introduction: The Plaintiff's Bar, 51 New York Law School Law Review 209 (2006) (with M. Galanter and T. Rostain)
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  • Keep it Simple: An Explanation of the Rule of No Recovery for Pure Economic Loss, 48 Arizona Law Review 773 (2006)
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  • On Nourishing the Curriculum with a Transnational-Law Lagniappe, 65 Journal of Legal Education 578 (2006) (from the Association of American Law Schools' Workshop on Integrating Transnational Legal Perspectives into the First-Year Curriculum, Annual Meeting, Torts Panel, January 2006)
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  • <The Zeal Shortage, 34 Hofstra Law Review 1165 (2006)
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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Workplace Privacy, 66 Louisiana Law Review 923 (2006)
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  • Whatever Happened to Law and Economics?, 64 Maryland Law Review 303 (2005)
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  • Question Autonomy, With an Asterisk, 54 Emory Law Journal 239 (2005)
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  • Muss es sein? Not Necessarily, Says Tort Law, 67 Law and Contemporary Problems 7 (2004)
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  • The Enterprise of Liability, 39 Valparaiso University Law Review 27 (2004)
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  • For and Against Marriage: A Revision, 102 Michigan Law Review 129 (2003)
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  • What Clients Want, What Lawyers Need, 52 Emory Law Journal 1053 (2003)
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  • Products Liability in the United States Supreme Court: A Venture in Memory of Gary Schwartz, 53 South Carolina Law Review 1193 (2002)
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  • The Communities that Make Standards of Care Possible, 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 735 (2002)
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  • Conjoining International Human Rights Law with Enterprise Liability for Accidents, 40 Washburn Law Journal 382 (2001)
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  • Reciprocity, Utility, and the Law of Aggression, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2001)
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  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: General Principles and the Prescription of Masculine Order, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1367 (2001)
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  • Complaints, 32 McGeorge Law Revew 37 (2000)
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  • Foreward, Still Unfinished, Ever Unfinished, (Symposium editor, Unfinished Feminist Business) 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 641 (2000)
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  • The New-Tort Centrifuge, 49 DePaul Law Review 413 (1999)
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  • The Representational Dialectic (with Illustrations from Obscenity, Forfeiture, and Accident Law), 87 California Law Review 305 (1999)
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  • An Old Jurisprudence: Respect in Retrospect, 83 Cornell Law Review 1231 (1998)
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  • Formed by Thalidomide: Mass Torts as a False Cure for Toxic Exposure, 97 Columbia Law Review 2153 (1997)
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  • How to Make a New Tort: Three Paradoxes, 75 Texas Law Review 1539 (1997)
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  • Treating Sexual Harassment with Respect, 111 Harvard Law Review 445 (1997)
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  • A Feminist Revisit to the First-Year Curriculum, 46 Journal of Legal Education 217 (1996)
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  • Better Living Through Crime and Tort, 76 Boston University Law Review 169 (1996)
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  • "Weightier Than a Mountain": Duty, Hierarchy, and the Consumer in Japan, 29 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 45 (1996) (co-author: P. Fleming)
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  • How Can a Product be Liable?, 45 Duke Law Journal 1 (1995)
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  • Heirs of Leonardo: Cultural Obstacles to Strict Products Liability in Italy, 27 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 12 (1994) (co-author: P. Fleming)
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  • Law, Culture, and Harassment, 142 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 227 (1994)
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  • A Model of Products Liability Reform, 27 Valparaiso University Law Review 639 (1993)
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  • Perspectives on a Torts Course, 43 Journal of Legal Education 289 (1993)
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  • A Letter to a Female Colleague, 68 Chicago-Kent Law Review 317 (1992)
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  • Looking at Europe for the Difference between Strict and Fault-Based Liability, 14 Journal of Products Liability 207 (1992)
  • L'Harmonie Dissonante: Strict Products Liability Attempted in the European Community, 31 Virginia Journal of International Law 673 (1991)
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  • A Duty to Warn: One American View of the EC Products Liability Directive, 20 Anglo-American Law Review 224 (1991)
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  • How to Assess Litigation Exposure, 35 Practical Lawyer 13 (April 1989)
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  • Executive Targeting of Congressmen as a Violation of the Arrest Clause, 94 Yale Law Journal 647 (1985)
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Books

  • Understanding Torts, (LexisNexis, 4th ed.2010) (with J. L. Diamond and L. C. Levine)
  • Editor, Marriage Proposals: Questioning a Legal Status (NYU Press, 1st ed. 2006, 2d ed. 2008
  • Questions & Answers: Torts (LexisNexis, 1st ed. 2004, 2d edition 2010) (with D. Leonard)
  • A Products Liability Anthology (LexisNexis, 1995)

Contributions to Books

  • Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality Convergent in Pecuniary Reparations, pp. 291-323 in The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • Engendered by Technologies in The Technology Of Humanity: Can Technology Contribute to the Quality Of Life?, pp. 12-113 (M. E. Mitchell ed., 2003) (revised; originally published in 80 North Carolina Law Review 1 (2001))
  • Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co.: Markets of Mothers, in Torts Stories, pp. 151-178 (R. L. Rabin & S. D. Sugarman eds., 2003)
  • Precaution and Respect, pp. 148-158, Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle (Island Press, 1999)
  • Product Dynamism and the Law in Meaning, pages 113-120, Measure and Morality of Materialism (Floyd Rudmin and Marcha Richins eds., 1992)