Mark Geistfeld

Mark Geistfeld’s primary teaching areas are torts, products liability, and insurance. He has authored or co-authored five books along with over 50 articles and book chapters. In many of these publications, Geistfeld explains the important doctrines of tort law by reference to a compensatory tort right that unifies the primary liability functions of deterrence and compensation. In a series of related articles, he shows why this conception is historically accurate and consistent with extensive empirical studies of contemporary social norms. Geistfeld has also written extensively on products liability and has analyzed the liability and insurance implications of autonomous vehicles in various publications, including “A Roadmap for Autonomous Vehicles: State Tort Liability, Automobile Insurance, and Federal Safety Regulation,” 105 California Law Review 1611 (2017). Much of his scholarship relies on insurance considerations due to the interplay between tort liability and insurance mechanisms.