NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW
Walter Olson, Editor
1988 · 214 Pages · $12.95 (APS Members: $8.40)
Introduction
- Walter Olson, The Liability Revolution
Is There a Liability Crisis?
- Peter H. Schuck, The New Judicial Ideology of Tort Law
- Marc Galanter, Beyond the Litigation Panic
- Richard L. Abel, The Crisis Is Injuries, Not Liability
The Impact on Enterprise
- Walter Olson, Overdeterrence and the Problem of Comparative Risk
- Kenneth S. Abraham, The Causes of the Insurance Crisis
- Roberta Romano, Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance: What Went Wrong?
- Frank J. Macchiarola, Not-for-Profit Organizations and the Liability Crisis
A Challenge to Government
- Michael W. McConnell, A Choice-of-Law Approach to Products-Liability Reform
- Edmund W. Kitch, Can Washington Repair the Tort System?
- Jeremy Rabkin, Where the Lines Have Held: Tort Claims against the Federal Government
- W. Kip Viscusi, Compensating Workplace Toxic Torts
- Douglas J. Besharov, Forum-Shopping, Forum-Skipping, and the Problem of International Competitiveness
Ideas on Reform
- Peter Huber, Knowledge of the Law is No Excuse
- Austin Sarat, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Wrong Solution, Wrong Problem
- Robert Cooter and Stephen D. Sugarman, A Regulated Market in Unmatured Tort Claims: Tort Reform by Contract
- Jeffrey O'Connell, Neo-No-Fault: A Fait-Exchange Proposal for Tort Reform
A Concluding Overview
- George L. Priest, Understanding the Liability Crisis
