The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law by Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins.

Abstract

Tort law typically is not what first comes to mind when discussing areas of the law ripe for social justice-minded reform. As Martha Chamallas writes, “[g]ender and race have disappeared from the face of tort law. The old doctrines that explicitly limited recovery exclusively to one gender have been either abolished or extended on a gender-neutral basis.” In my Tort Law course, there was little if any discussion of how tort reform could promote race and gender equality. I was excited by a book that promised an intersectional analysis of tort law, and for the most part, The Measure of Injury lived up to my expectations.

Keywords: The Measure of Injury: Race Gender and Tort Law, Martha Chamallas, Jennifer B. Wriggins, Emily Stabile, Intersectional Law, Gender, Race, Torts