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
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. in Legal Education from Temple in 2005. From 1996 through 2003, Professor Robinette practiced law at Tremblay & Smith, LLP in Charlottesville, Virginia, where his practice focused on tort and commercial litigation.
At Widener, Professor Robinette teaches Torts, Products Liability, Insurance, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Contracts. He writes in the areas of tort law and theory. In 2008, Professor Robinette co-authored A Recipe for Balanced Tort Reform. He authored or co-authored articles and essays in the University of Illinois Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Tennessee 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 2012, Professor Robinette was elected to the American Law Institute. He has received both the Douglas E. Ray Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award and the Outstanding Faculty Award. Professor Robinette serves on the Executive Committee of the AALS Torts & Compensation Systems Section and the New Appleman on Insurance Advisory Board. Additionally, he serves as an editor of
TortsProf Blog.
Selected Recent Publications
Books- 6 Appleman on Insurance: Automobile Insurance (LexisNexis 2011) (Editor of Volume 6 of the 15-volume Library Edition that will update and replace the
leading 68-volume treatise on insurance law)
- A Recipe for Balanced Tort Reform (with Jeffrey O'Connell) (Carolina Academic Press 2008)
Articles- Two Roads Diverge for Civil Recourse Theory, 88 Ind. L.J. 543 (2013)
- Why Civil Recourse Theory Is Incomplete, 78 Tenn. L. Rev. 431 (2011)
- The Prosser Notebook: Classroom as Biography and Intellectual History, 2010 U. Ill. L. Rev. 577
- The Synergy of Early Offers and Medical Explanations/Apologies, 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. 2007 (2009) (essay)
- Crimtorts, 17 Widener L.J. 705 (2008) (symposium introduction)
- Peace: A Public Purpose for Punitive Damages?, Symposium: Punitive Damages, Due Process, and Deterrence: The Debate After Phillip Morris v. Williams, 2 Charleston L. Rev. 327 (2008), 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)