Professor Wright is recognized nationally and internationally for his combining theoretical and descriptive analyses of basic issues in domestic and comparative tort law, legal proof, legal philosophy, and law and economics. His work has resulted in significant changes in accepted doctrine and underlying theoretical analysis by the American Law Institute, academics and courts in the USA, and many other countries.
Before entering the academy, he worked in the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., and as a legal adviser and project leader in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.
Professor Wright's teaching and research focus on domestic and comparative tort law, jurisprudence, law and economics, and law and artificial intelligence. His published work appears in several international collections of leading tort law and legal philosophy scholarship. Before joining the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty, he was a member of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law faculty at Yeshiva University, where he received the Monrad G. Paulsen Award for outstanding contributions to legal education.
He has been a visiting professor, fellow, and/or lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina, the University of Melbourne in Australia, the University of Palermo in Italy, the Universities of Gdańsk and Wrocław in Poland, Ivan Franko University in Ukraine, Sichuan University and the China University of Political Science and Law in China, and Brasenose College and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford in England.
Education
LL.M., Harvard Law School
J.D., Loyola Law School Los Angeles
B.S., California Institute of Technology