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Jonathan Cardi

Jonathan Cardi

Professor of Law

Jonathan Cardi joined the faculty of Wake Forest in July 2010. Professor Cardi specializes in tort law, the law of remedies, and the intersection of race and the law. He is co-author of casebooks in torts, products liability, and remedies, two commercial outlines, and is co-editor of a book entitled Critical Race Realism. He is a member of the American Law Institute, serving as Associate Reporter of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts and as Advisor to the Restatements of Torts Remedies and Concluding Provisions. Professor Cardi received his BA from Harvard and his JD from the University of Iowa. He then clerked for the Honorable Judge Alan Norris, U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Judge for the 6th Circuit before working as a litigator at the D.C. law firm, Arnold & Porter. Prior to joining Wake Forest, Professor Cardi was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he taught for eight years.


Education

  • JD, The University of Iowa College of Law, 1998
  • BA, Harvard University, 1991

Courses

LAW 108 Torts
LAW 122 Professional Development
LAW 304 Equitable and Legal Remedies
LAW 523 Products Liability
LAW 638 Social Science, Race & the Law
LAW 661 Comparative Advanced Torts
LAW 671 Defamation and Privacy in the Internet Era

Publications

Books

  • Products Liability, Cases and Materials, 6th ed. (West Academic Publishing 2022) (with David Fischer, Richard Cupp, Jr., Michael Green, Joseph Sanders).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Tentative Draft No. 6) (2021).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Council Draft No. 7) (2020).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Preliminary Draft No. 7) (2020).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Tentative Draft No. 5) (2020).
  • Remedies: A Contemporary Approach, 5th ed. (West Academic Publishing 2020) (with Russell Weaver, David Partlett, Michael Kelly).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Council Draft No. 6) (2019).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Preliminary Draft No. 6) (2019).
  • Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 6th ed. (West Academic Publishing 2019) (with George Christie, Joe Sanders, Mary Davis).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Tentative Draft No. 4) (2019).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Council Draft No. 5) (2018).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Preliminary Draft No. 5) (2018).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law. Inst., Council Draft No. 4) (2017).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Tentative Draft No. 2) (2017).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Preliminary Draft No. 4) (2017).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Council Draft No. 3) (2016).
  • Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (Am. Law Inst., Preliminary Draft No. 3) (2016).
  • Modern Remedies: Cases, Practical Problems and Exercises, 3rd ed. (Thompson-West 2016) (with Russell Weaver, David Partlett, Michael Kelly).
  • Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective (Jan Sramek Verlag 2015).
  • Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 5th ed. (Thompson-West 2012) (with George Christie, Joe Sanders).
  • Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law (The New Press 2008).

Book Chapters

  • United States Law, in The Borderlines of Tort Law: Interactions with Contract Law 617-668 (Miquel Martin-Casals 2019).
  • Defining the Boundaries Between Tort and Contract, in The European Group on Tort Law's Principles of European Tort Law.
  • The Liability of Public Authorities in the United States, in The Liability of Public Authorities in Comparative Perspective (Ken Oliphant, ed. 2016).
  • Product Liability in the United States of America, in European Product Liability: An Analysis of the State of the Art in the Era of New Technologies (Piotr Machnikowski, ed. 2016).
  • Basic Questions of Tort Law from the Perspective of the USA, in Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective (Helmut Koziol, ed. 2015).
  • The Civil Jury: An American Ir-Resolution, in Le Droit Américain Contemporain Regards Transatlantiques (Pascal Mbongo & Russell L. Weaver, eds. 2013).
  • Net Negligence: A Framework for Understanding Claims for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress in the Modern Era, in The Right to Privacy in the Light of Media Convergence: Perspectives from Three Continents 298-321 (Dieter Dorr & Russell L. Weaver eds. 2012).
  • Uber-Middleman: Reshaping the Broken Landscape of Music Copyright, in Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook (2008).
  • The Search for Racial Justice in Tort Law, in Critical Race Realism (2008).

Articles

Other

  • Gibert Law Summaries, Torts 26th ed. (2023).
  • Gilbert Law Summaries, Torts, 25th ed. (2017).
  • Black Letter Outlines, Remedies, 2nd ed. (2014).

Media

Jonathan Cardi
Contact Information
 336.758.6039

Worrell 3125
Expertise
  • Comparative Torts
  • Copyright
  • Critical Race Studies
  • Law & Society
  • Products Liability
  • Remedies
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