Associate Professor
B.A., College of William & Mary
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
LL.M., Temple University School of Law
E-mail:
cjrobinette@widener.edu Phone: 717.541.3993
Christopher J. Robinette is Associate Professor of Law at Widener's Harrisburg Campus.
Professor Robinette is a graduate of the College of William & Mary (B.A., cum laude, 1993) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1996). He served as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Temple University School of Law from 2003 through 2005 and received an LL.M. from Temple in 2005.
From 1996 through 2003, Professor Robinette practiced law at Tremblay & Smith, L.L.P. in Charlottesville, Virginia, where his practice focused on tort and commercial litigation. While in practice, Professor Robinette served as a member of the Charlottesville Salvation Army Advisory Board and founded a legal lecture series designed to educate Salvation Army residents about areas of the law relevant to their lives.
At Widener, Professor Robinette teaches Torts, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Theories of Tort Law. He writes in the areas of tort law and theory. Professor Robinette has authored or co-authored articles in the George Mason Law Review, University of Illinois Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Northern Illinois University Law Review, and Brandeis Law Journal.
Selected Recent Publications
- A RECIPE FOR BALANCED TORT REFORM (2008) (with Jeffrey O'Connell).
- Crimtorts, 17 Widener Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2008)(symposium
introduction).
- Peace: A Public Purpose for Punitive Damages?, 2 Charleston Law Review 327
(2008)(symposium).
- Torts Rationales, Pluralism, and Isaiah Berlin, 14 George Mason Law Review 329 (2007).
- Can There Be a Unified Theory of Torts? A Pluralist Suggestion from History and Doctrine, 43 Brandeis Law Journal 369 (2005).