Foundations of tort law /
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| Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 1994. |
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| Description: | ix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Foundations of law series Foundations of law series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4307560 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Torts and Bargains
- The Problem of Social Cost
- When Does the Rule of Liability Matter?
- Consumption Theory, Production Theory, and Ideology in the Case Theorem
- II. The Role of Fault
- Killing or Wounding to Protect a Property Interest
- Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory
- The Concept of Corrective Justice in Recent Theories of Tort Law
- The Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law
- Tort Law and the Economy in Nineteenth-Century America: Reinterpretation
- Some Effects of Uncertainty on Compliance with Legal Standards
- III. The Requirement of Causation
- Remarks on Causation and Liability
- Property, Wrongfulness and the Duty to Compensate
- Probabilistic Recoveries, Restitution, and Recurring Wrongs
- Economic Loss In Tort
- Women, Mothers, and the Law of Fright: A History
- VI. The Lawyer's Role
- Untaken Precautions
- Opting for the British Rule, or If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?
- A Market in Personal Injury Tort Claims
- V. Liability Arising out of the Workplace
- The Boundaries of Vicarious Liability: An Economic Analysis
- Comment--The Creation of a Common-Law Rule: The Fellow Servant Rule, 1837-1860
- Social Change and the Law of Industrial Accidents, Lawrence
- VI. Omissions and Commissions
- Waiting for Rescue: An Essay on the Evolution and Incentive Structure of the Law off Affirmative Obligations
- Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort
- The Case for a Duty to Rescue
- VII. Tort Liability and Other Means of Social Control
- Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral
- A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control
- The Social Consequences of Common-Law Rules
- VIII. Insurance, No-Fault, and Tort Reform
- The Current Insurance Crisis and Modern Tort Law
- Incentive Issues in the Design of "No-Fault" Compenstion Systems
- Proposals for Products Liability Reform: A Theoretical Synthesis
- Some Reflections on the Process of Tort Reform
- In the Shadow of the Legislature: The Common Law in the Age of the New Public Law