Regulation through litigation
By: W. Kip Viscusi, editor.
Contributors: Viscusi, W. Kip.
Publisher: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; Brookings Institution Press and AEI
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Citizen suits (Civil procedure) -- United States.; Delegated legislation -- United States.; Class actions (Civil procedure) -- United States.; Public policy (Law) -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview / W. Kip Viscusi; title: Tobacco : regulation and taxation through litigation / W. Kip Viscusi ; comment by John E. Calfee; title: Litigation as regulation : firearms / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig ; comment by Jim Leitzel; title: Litigating lead-based paint hazards / Randall Lutter and Elizabeth Mader ; comment by Thomas J. Kniesner; title: Breast implants : regulation, litigation, and science / Joni Hersch ; comment by Peter Schuck; title: Malpractice pressure, managed care, and physician behavior / Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan ; comment by Patricia Danzon; title: The insurance effects of regulation by litigation / Kenneth S. Abraham ; comment by J. David Cummins; title: The regulatory advantage of class action / David Rosenberg ; comment by James Wootton; title: Implications for legal reform / Richard A. Epstein ; comment by Gary T. Schwartz.