Research Catalog

Title

New directions in liability law / edited by Walter Olson.

Publication

New York : Academy of Political Science in conjunction with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Olson, Walter K.
• Academy of Political Science (U.S.)
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Description

x, 214 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 0065-0684 ; v. 37, no. 1

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science ; v. 37, no. 1.

Subject

• Deutschland
• Torts > United States
• Liability (Law) > United States
• Aspects juridiques
• Responsabilité légale
• Liability (Law)
• Torts
• Recht
• Haftung
• Haftpflicht
• Reform
• Kongress
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Aansprakelijkheid
• Rechtspraak
• Wetgeving
• Etats-Unis d'Amérique
• United States
• USA
• USA
• Deutschland > Haftpflichtgesetz

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at a conference held on Nov. 10, 1987 at Columbia University and sponsored by the Academy of Political Science and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The liability revolution / Walter Olsen -- The New judicial ideology of tort law / Peter H. Schuck -- Beyond the litigation panic / Marc Galanter -- The crisis is injuries, not liability / Richard L. Abel -- Overdeterrence and the problem of comparative risk / Walter Olson -- The Causes of the insurance crisis / Kenneth S. Abraham -- Directors' and officers' liability insurance : what went wrong? / Roberta Romano -- Not-for-profit organizations and the liability crisis / Frank J. Macchiarola -- A Choice-of-law approach to products-liability reform / Michael W. McConnell -- Can Washington repair the tort system? / Edmund W. Kitch -- Where the lines have held : tort claims against the Federal government / Jeremy Rabkin -- Compensating workplace toxic torts / W. Kip Viscusi -- Forum-shopping, forum-skipping, and the problems of international competitiveness / Douglas J. Besharov -- Knowledge of the law is no excuse / Peter Huber -- Alternative dispute resolution : wrong solution, wrong problem / Austin Sarat -- A regulated market in unmatured Tort claims: Tort reform by contract / Robert Cooter and Stephen D. Sugarman -- Neo-no-fault : a fair exchange proposal for tort reform / Jeffrey O' Connell -- Understanding the liability crisis / George L. Priest.

LCCN

88071014

OCLC

• ocm18509682
• 18509682
• SCSB-9118239

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library