WV. Horton RogersW.V. Horton Rogers

Professor of Private Law,
University of Nottingham,
United Kingdom
Member of the European Group on Tort Law

  
     
 
Contact
Law and Social Sciences Building
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD

Telephone: (+44) 1 15 95 15 698
Fax: (+44) 1 15 95 15 696

E-Mail: horton.rogers@nottingham.ac.uk
 		  
 
Curriculum Vitae
Education:

Trinity College Cambridge

Barrister, Gray's Inn

Employment:
1966-68 Legal Civil Service (Law Commission)
1967-68 Sub-lector, Trinity College, Cambridge
1968-77 Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer, University of Nottingham
1975-76 Visiting Lecturer, University College, Buckingham
1977-98 Professor of Law, University of Leeds
1981-82 Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School
since 1998 Senior Fellow, University of Nottingham
since 1998 Visiting Lecturer, College of Law

Publications

Principal publications on Tort Law
  • Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 10th ed 1975, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 11th ed 1979, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 12th ed 1984, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 13th ed 1989, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 14th ed 1994, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 15th ed 1998, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Rogers, Law of Tort 1989, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Rogers, Law of Tort 2nd ed 1994, Sweet & Maxwell
  • Gatley, Libel and Slander 9th ed (with Patrick Milmo QC), 1998, Sweet & Maxwell
Publications in connection with the European Group on Tort Law
  • "Keeping the Floodgates Shut" 75-92 in Spier (ed.) The Limits of Liability, 1996, Kluwer"Comparative Report on Case 2" 37-50 in Spier (ed.) The Limits of Expanding Liability, 1998, Kluwer
  • "England" 93-105 in Spier (ed.) The Limits of Expanding Liability, 1998, Kluwer
  • "Wrongfulness under English Law" in Koziol (ed.) Unification of Tort Law: Wrongfulness, 1998, Kluwer.
  • "England" in U. Magnus (ed.): Unification of Tort Law: Damages, 2000, Kluwer.
  • "England" in B.A. Koch/H. Koziol (eds.): Unification of Tort Law: Strict Liability, 2002, Kluwer.
  • Editor and contributor to W.V.H. Rogers (ed.): Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss in a Comparative Perspective, 2001, Springer.
Other recent publications:
  • "Liability for Environmental Pollution in the Common Law: the Cambridge Water case" (1994) 2 Aansprakelijkheid en Verzekering 64
  • "Tort Law and Child Abuse: An Interim View from England" (1994) 2 Torts Law Jo 257"Page v Smith: Shock, Foresight and Vulnerable Personalities" (1995) 3 Torts Law Jo 149
  • "X v Bedfordshire CC: Tort Law and Statutory Functions -- Probably Not the End of the Story" (1995) 3 Torts Law Jo 1995 221 (with CJ Hilson).
  • "Aspects of English Tort Law 1994-95" (1996) 4 Aansprakelijkheid en Verzekering 19.
  • "Negligence, Powers, Duties and Omissions; an English Answer (1996) 4 Torts Law Jo 214.
  • "Causation and Falls in the Market" (1997) 5 Tort Law Rev 12
  • "Auditors in the High Court of Australia" (1997) 5 Torts Law Rev 169.
  • "Liability for Psychiatric Trauma in England" (1998) 6 Aansprakelijkheid en Verzekering 113-116
  • "Psychiatric Trauma: ‘Thus Far and No Further’ -- In Fact, Not Quite So Far As Hitherto" (1999) 7 Torts Law Jo 23.