Foundations of tort law
By: [edited] by Saul Levmore.
Contributors: Levmore, Saul X.
Publisher: Foundation Press; Foundation Pr; Brand: Foundation Pr
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Torts -- United States; Torts -- Economic aspects
Table of contents: title: Problem of social cost -- Ronald H. Coase; title: When does the rule of liability matter? -- Harold Demsetz; title: Consumption theory, production theory, and ideology in the Coase Theorem -- Mark Kelman; title: Killing or wounding to protect a property interest -- Richard A. Posner; title: Fairness and utility in tort theory -- George P. Fletcher; title: Concept of corrective justice in recent theories of tort law -- Richard A. Posner; title: Rethinking comparative law: variety and uniformity in ancient and modern tort law -- Saul Levmore; title: Tort law and the economy in nineteenth-century America -- Gary T. Schwartz; title: Some effects of uncertainty on compliance with legal standards -- John E. Calfee, -- Richard Craswell; title: Remarks on causation and liability -- Judith Jarvis Thomson; title: Property, wrongfulness, and the duty to compensate -- Jules L. Coleman; title: Probabilistic recoveries, restitution, and recurring wrongs -- Saul Levmore; title: Economic loss in tort -- William Bishop; title: Women, mothers, and the law of fright: a history -- Martha Chamallas, -- Linda K. Kerber; title: Untaken precautions -- Mark F. Grady; title: Opting for the British Rule, or if Posner and Shavell can't remember the Coase Theorem, who will? -- John J. Donohue, III; title: Market in personal injury tort claims -- Marc J. Shukaitis; title: Boundaries of vicarious liability: an economic analysis of the scope of employment rule and related legal doctrines -- Alan O. Sykes; title: Creation of a common-law rule: the fellow-servant rule, 1837-1860 -- Social change and the law of industrial accidents-- Lawrence M. Friedman,-- Jack Ladinsky.; title: Waiting for rescue: an essay on the evolution and incentive structure of the law of affirmative obligations -- Saul Levmore; title: Lawyer's primer on feminist theory and tort -- Leslie Bender; title: Case for a duty to rescue -- Ernest J. Weinrib; title: Property rules, liability rules, and inalienability: one view of the Cathedral -- Guido Calabresi, -- A. Douglas Melamed; title: Critique of economic and sociological theories of social control -- Robert C. Ellickson; title: Social consequences of common-law rules -- Richard Epstein; title: Current insurance crisis and modern tort law -- George L. Priest; title: Incentive issues in the design of "no-fault" compensation systems -- Michael J. Trebilcock; title: Proposals of products liability reform: a theoretical synthesis -- Alan Schwartz; title: Some reflections on the process of tort reform -- Robert L. Rabin; title: In the shadow of the legislature: the common law in the age of the new public law-- Daniel A. Farber,-- Philip P. Frickey.