Arlen, H. Jennifer --- "Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) [2013] ELECD 1207

Editor(s): Arlen, H. Jennifer

Title: Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts

Series: Research Handbooks in Law and Economics series

Topics: Law and Economics; Law of Obligations

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 29 November 2013

Number of pages: 672

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848441187

ISBN (soft cover): 9781783471348

EISBN: 9781781006177

Abstract/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.

Focusing on issues of vital importance to those seeking to understand and reform the tort system, this volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach, including theoretical economic analysis, empirical analysis, socio-economic analysis, and behavioral analysis of liability rules and the litigation process. 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, law practitioners, regulators, judges and economists with an interest in tort law, litigation, damages, and reform will find this seminal Handbook an invaluable addition to their libraries.