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 an 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 recently co-authored A RECIPE FOR
BALANCED TORT REFORM (2008). He has authored or co-authored articles in the
University of Illinois Law Review,
George Mason Law Review,
Connecticut Law Review,
Northern Illinois University Law Review, and
Brandeis Law Journal. He has also written for symposia published in the
Charleston Law Review and
Widener Law Journal. In 2009, Professor Robinette received the Douglas E. Ray Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award.
Additionally, he serves as an editor of
TortsProf Blog.
Selected Recent Publications
Books- A RECIPE FOR BALANCED TORT REFORM (2008) (with Jeffrey O'Connell)
Articles
- The Prosser Notebook: Classroom as Biography and Intellectual History, 2010 U. ILL. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2010)
- The Synergy of Early Offers and Medical Explanations/Apologies, 103 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 514 (2009)
- Crimtorts, 17 WIDENER L.J. 705 (2008) (symposium introduction)
- Peace: A Public Purpose for Punitive Damages?, 2 CHAS. L. REV. 327 (2008) (symposium), reprinted in PUNITIVE DAMAGES: NEW DIMENSIONS (M.N. Bhavani, ed., Amicus Books of Icfai University Press, India 2008)
- Torts Rationales, Pluralism, and Isaiah Berlin, 14 GEO. MASON L. REV. 329 (2007)