RSRH, Actually, we already have “Shailos U’teshuvos;” they’re called Restatements. 😉
Your point about Arbah Avos Nezikin reminds me when an instructor at my school actually checked that out from the main university library and I overheard her saying in the law library that this was the “Jewish law of four kinds of things that cause damages.” I explained that they were four of multiple kinds of things that cause damages.
Nevertheless, how would one divine damages for e.g., copyright infringement from the Gemara?
I believe I better understand your goal. When I took Torts, some of my Christian classmates were impressed to hear from me that the words in the Chumash “Ayin tachat ayin, shayn tachat shayn” were actually more like headnotes for the discussion in the Torah Sheh B’al Peh about determining monetary damages for bodily injury, the actual system we use today. They were even more interested to learn that historically, payment of money was the judgment by bes din for BI and not an equivalent loss of limb.
Of course, none of this is bar exam material.
You might be interested in the CLEs occasionally presented by Chabad in Manhattan on the connections between Halacha and American law. I attended one a a few years ago where Nathan Lewin spoke.
Again, very best wishes for success in your article and in the profession.