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
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
Publications
Books
- Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 6th ed. (2019) (with Joe Sanders, Mary Davis).
- 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 (Wien : 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
- Defining the Boundaries Between Tort and Contract, in The European Group on Tort Law's Principles of European Tort Law.
- 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).
- The Liability of Public Authorities in the United States, in The Liability of Public Authorities in Comparative Perspective (Ken Oliphant, 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
- A Negligence Claim for Rape, Texas Law Review forthcoming.
- Do Black Injuries Matter?: Implicit Bias and Jury Decision Making in Tort Cases, 93 Southern California Law Review, 507 (2020).
- Restating the Intentional Torts to Persons: Seeing the Forest and the Trees, 10 Journal of Tort Law 1 (2017).
- The Role of Negligence Duty Analysis in Employment Discrimination Cases, 75 Ohio State Law Journal 1129 (2014).
- A Unified Right to Jury Trial, 38 University of Western Australia Law Review 143 (2014).
- The Liability of Public Authorities in the United States, Principles of European Tort Law (2013).
- Does Tort Law Deter Individuals?: A Behavioral Science Study, 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 567 (2012).
- The Taxpayer's Burden from Product-Related Harm, 21 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 121 (2011).
- The Hidden Legacy of Palsgraf: Modern Duty Law in Microcosm, 91 Boston University Law Review 1873 (2011).
- A Pluralistic Analysis of the Therapist/Physician Duty to Warn Third Parties, 44 Wake Forest Law Review 877 (2009).
- Tort Damages as Reconciliation, 42 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 5 (2008).
- Duty Wars, 81 Southern California Law Review 671 (2008).
- Uber-Middleman: Reshaping the Broken Landscape of Music Copyright, 92 Iowa Law Review 835-90 (2007).
- Reconstructing Foreseeability, 46 Boston College Law Review 921-88 (2005).
- Purging Foreseeability, 58 Vanderbilt Law Review 739-809 (2005).
- Note, Apportioning Responsibility to Immune Nonparties: An Argument Based on Comparative Responsibility and the Proposed Restatement (Third) of Torts, 82 Iowa Law Review 1293-336 (1998).
Other
- Black Letter Outlines, Remedies, 2nd ed. (2014).
- Gilbert Law Summaries, Torts, 25th ed. (2008).
Media
- The rise of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity The Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 7, 2015
- Quoted in Mixed verdict on new law Watauga Democrat, December 2, 2014
Expertise
- Comparative Torts
- Copyright
- Critical Race Studies
- Law & Society
- Products Liability
- Remedies
