Recent Publications by Members

Professor Erika Chamberlain

“Building Safety in Canada: Has Winnipeg Condominium had an Impact?” in M Bell, S Bright, B McFarlane & A Robertson (eds), Private Law and Building Safety (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024).

“Diceyan Equality and Public Authority Liability: Floor or Ceiling?” in A Robertson & J Neyers (eds), Private Law and the State (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024).

Peter Hogg (dec’d), Patrick Monahan, Wade K Wright & Erika Chamberlain, Liability of the Crown, 5th ed. (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, summer 2024).

T Orchard & E Chamberlain, “Are we Dating the Same Guy? Online groups toe the line between protecting women and defaming men” The Conversation Canada, 4 October 2023, republished in over 80 Postmedia newspapers across Canada.

RE Brown (founding author), E Chamberlain & K Eltis, The Law of Defamation: Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States (2d ed., looseleaf, five annual updates) (Toronto: Thomson Reuters).

Case Annotation, Hansman v Neufeld, 2023 SCC 14 (2023) 90:2 Canadian Cases on the Law of Torts (4th) 301.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Professor Jason Neyers

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). 

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).]

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).

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

“In Defence Of ‘In Defence Of The Third-Party Rule’” in L Smith, E Fox-Decent, and J Goldberg, Understanding Private Law: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Smith (Hart: 2024) 

Professor Zoë Sinel

“Whiten v Pilot Insurance, [2022] 1 SCR 595: How Can Something So Wrong Feel So Right?,” in James Goudkamp and Eleni Katsampouka, eds, Landmark Cases in Punitive Damages (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023).

“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, 2023).

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).  

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.

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.]

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.

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.

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.

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

Professor Andrew Botterell

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). 

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).]

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

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

Professor Melanie Randall 

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

Professor Robert Soloman 

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.

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.

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

Professor Stephen Pitel

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.

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

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

Professor Joanna Langille

“Public Policy and the Rule of Law,” in Roxana Banu, Michael Green, and Ralf Michaels, eds, Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024).

“Persons, Not Citizens,” in Mark Walters and Geneviève Cartier, eds, The Promise of Legality: Critical Reflections upon the Work of TRS Allan (Hart, forthcoming 2024).

Jonathan de Vries

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

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