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Oscar Gray
Jacob A. France Professor Emeritus of Torts
Phone: (410) 706-7174
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BA, 1948, JD, 1951, Yale University
In addition to private and corporate practice, Professor Gray has been an attorney-adviser in the Legal Adviser's Office of the U.S. Department of State; special counsel to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy; acting director of the Office of Environmental Impact, U.S. Department of Transportation; and has taught at the Catholic University of America School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Tennessee College of Law.
He is the author of Cases and Materials on Environmental Law and co-author (with H. Shulman and F. James and D. Gifford) of Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts and (with F. Harper and F. James) of The Law of Torts. Professor Gray is completing his work on the third edition of Harper, James and Gray on Torts, the first four volumes of which have recently appeared. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Selden Society and Phi Beta Kappa.
Books
Harper, James and Gray on Torts (3d ed., vols. 1-6, 2006-2008) (with Fowler V. Harper and Fleming James, Jr.).
Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (3d ed. 1976; 4th ed. 2003) (with Donald Gifford).
Cases and Materials on Environmental Law (1970; 2d ed. 1973).
Articles
Some Thoughts on 'The Economic Loss Rule' and Apportionment, 48 Arizona Law Review 897 (2006). [Full Text]
The Draft ALI Product Liability Proposals: Progress or Anachronism?, 61 Tennessee Law Review 1105 (1994).
Reflections on the Historical Context of Section 402A, 10 Touro Law Review 75 (1993).
On Sugarman on Tort-Chopping, 24 San Diego Law Review 851 (1987).
Standard of Care for Children Revisited, 45 Missouri Law Review 597 (1980).
One Year's Environmental Litigation: 1977-78, 14 The Forum 962 (1979).
Misrepresentation, (pts 1-2) 37 Maryland Law Review 286, 488 (1978) (with Fleming James, Jr.).
Section 4(F) of the Department of Transportation Act, 32 Maryland Law Review 327 (1973).
