Kenneth Abraham
@kabrahamva1.bsky.social
Professor at UVA Law School, insurance and tort law scholar
That last link, to UConn, worked for some but not all. You could try this one instead: ilc.law.uconn.edu/2026/03/09/2...
2026 Symposium Announcement | Insurance Law Center
A Festschrift in honor of Professor Kenneth S. Abraham and the 40th Anniversary of his first book, Distributing Risk Friday, June 5, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p ...
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That last link worked for some, but strangely, not all. Try this one: ilc.law.uconn.edu/2026/03/09/2...
2026 Symposium Announcement | Insurance Law Center
A Festschrift in honor of Professor Kenneth S. Abraham and the 40th Anniversary of his first book, Distributing Risk Friday, June 5, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p ...
ilc.law.uconn.edu
Very pleased to report that our Article, "Untangling AI Liability," co-authored with the great Cathy Sharkey of NYU Law School, will be published in the California Law Review. For those with access, you can find it on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Absolutely delighted that my former colleague and old friend, Liz Magill, has been named Dean of the Georgetown Law School. She will do a great job!
Absolutely delighted that my friend and co-author, Catherine Sharkey, has been named the winner of the 2026 Prosser Award, the highest torts award that the American Association of Law Schools has to give. lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/20...
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Happy 4th of July from Charlottesville, home of Monticello and the University of Virginia, on the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. By the way, our guy wrote it.
Here's my latest, "The Liability Revolution That No One Saw Coming" 78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Liability Revolution That No One Saw Coming
This Article tells the story of three wholly unpredicted but enormously important late twentieth-century developments in tort liability and insurance: the rise
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I just published this short Essay on the California fires: About the California Fires, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (Jan. 27, 2025), harvardlawreview.org/blog/2025/01....
About the California Fires | Harvard Law Review
The first principle of insurance reflects the fundamental lesson of the tragic California fires: you can’t get something for nothing. If expected losses from wildfires this year are $N, and the e
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Immediately after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lloyds of London underwriter and syndicate head, Cuthbert E. Heath, cabled his agents in San Francisco, "Pay all our policyholders in full, irrespective of the terms of their policies." Our nation's insurers should follow his lead in LA.
Here's my latest, "Free Speech, Breathing Space, and Liability Insurance," 111 Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2025): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Free Speech, Breathing Space, and Liability Insurance
<div> An important piece of the "speech-tort" picture has been almost completely missing from doctrinal and policy analysis: the role played by liabi
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