Alternatives and Complements: Liability and Regulation as Remedies for Physical Injury
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Description
This pioneering Handbook contains specially-commissioned chapters on tort law from leading experts in the field. This volume evaluates issues of vital importance to those seeking to understand and reform the tort law and the litigation process, taking a multi-disciplinary approach, including theoretical economic analysis, empirical analysis, socio-economic analysis, and behavioral analysis. Topics discussed include products liability, medical malpractice, causation, proximate cause, joint and several liability, class actions, mass torts, vicarious liability, settlement, damage rules, juries, tort reform, and potential alternatives to the tort system. Scholars, students, legal practitioners, regulators, and judges with an interest in tort law, litigation, damages, and reform will find this seminal Handbook an invaluable addition to their libraries.
Source Publication
Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts
Source Editors/Authors
Jennifer Arlen
Publication Date
2013
Recommended Citation
Epstein, Richard A., "Alternatives and Complements: Liability and Regulation as Remedies for Physical Injury" (2013). Faculty Chapters. 373.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/373
