Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts

Edited by Jennifer H. Arlen

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781848441187
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Empirical Analysis of Civil Litigation: Torts Trials in State Courts , pp 11-30

Michael Heise

Ch 2 Economic analysis of medical malpractice liability and its reform , pp 33-68

Jennifer Arlen

Ch 3 Economic analysis of products liability: Theory , pp 69-96

Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum

Ch 4 Causation in tort law: A reconsideration , pp 97-113

Keith N. Hylton

Ch 5 Causation and foreseeability , pp 114-148

Mark F. Grady

Ch 6 Fault lines in the positive economic analysis of tort law , pp 149-168

Mark A. Geistfeld

Ch 7 The law and economics of liability insurance: A theoretical and empirical review , pp 169-196

Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman

Ch 8 Economic analysis of joint and several liability , pp 199-233

Lewis A. Kornhauser

Ch 9 Economic policy and the vicarious liability of firms , pp 234-261

Reinier Kraakman

Ch 10 Group litigation in the enforcement of tort law , pp 262-278

Geoffrey Miller

Ch 11 The socio-economics of mass torts: What we know, don’t know and should know , pp 279-302

Deborah R. Hensler

Ch 12 Law, economics, and the burden(s) of proof , pp 305-329

Eric L. Talley

Ch 13 Law and economics of settlement , pp 330-359

Abraham L. Wickelgren

Ch 14 Bounded rationality in the settlement process: Empirical evidence on the causes of settlement failure in litigation , pp 360-382

Linda Babcock and Joshua Furgeson

Ch 15 Contingent-fee contracts in litigation: A survey and assessment , pp 383-413

Eric Helland and Seth Seabury

Ch 16 Empirical analysis of juries in tort cases , pp 414-436

Shari Seidman Diamond and Jessica M. Salerno

Ch 17 Damages for incompensable harms , pp 439-459

Robert Cooter and David DePianto

Ch 18 Empirical analysis of tort damages , pp 460-485

W Viscusi

Ch 19 Economic analysis of punitive damages: Theory, empirics, and doctrine , pp 486-510

Catherine M. Sharkey

Ch 20 The empirical effects of tort reform , pp 513-550

Theodore Eisenberg

Ch 21 Do damages caps reduce medical malpractice insurance premiums? A systematic review of estimates and the methods used to produce them , pp 551-587

Kathryn Zeiler and Lorian Hardcastle

Ch 22 No-fault accident compensation systems , pp 588-607

Michael Trebilcock and Paul-Erik Veel

Ch 23 Alternatives and complements: Liability and regulation as remedies for physical injury , pp 608-632

Richard A. Epstein

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