Research Catalog

Title

Tort law and the public interest : competition, innovation, and consumer welfare / Peter H. Schuck, editor.

Publication

New York : Norton, c1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schuck, Peter H.
• American Assembly.
• American Bar Association. Tort and Insurance Practice Section.

Description

320 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Torts > United States
• Liability (Law) > United States
• Torts > Economic aspects
• Liability (Law) > Economic aspects

Genre/Form

Congresses (form)

Note

• At head of title: The American Assembly, Columbia University. The Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-309) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the context of the controversy / Peter H. Schuck -- Tort law's interaction with other modes of risk allocation -- Liability insurance: volatility in prices and in the availability of coverage / Scott E. Harrington -- Tort law in the regulatory state / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Tort law's behavioral effects -- Rationalizing the relationship between product liability and innovation / W. Kip Viscusi, Michael J. Moore -- The liability explosion and American trade performance: myths and realities / Robert E. Litan -- Corporate governance in the aftermath of the insurance crisis / Roberta Romano -- Malpractice liability: is the grass on the other side greener? / Patricia M. Danzon -- Malpractice liability: a crosscultural perspective / Michael J. Trebilcock, Donald N. Dewees, David G. Duff -- The European Community directive on products liability / Giulio Ponzanelli -- Tort reform -- The evolution of products liability as a federal policy issue / Linda Lipsen -- State tort reform legislation: assessing our control of risks / Glenn Blackmon, Richard Zeckhauser.

ISBN

• 0393029271
• 0393961095 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^90045831^

OCLC

• 22275919
• SCSB-10217147

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library