Personal Injury Law Reform: a Proposed First Step

Personal Injury Law Reform: A Proposed First Step

The need to reform personal injury law leaving scientific disputes to scientists.

Personal injury law is staggeringly inefficient as a system of victim compensation. There is little reason to assume that it importantly curtails unreasonably dangerous conduct, yet there is good reason to conclude that it promotes socially undesirable behavior. Moreover, the tort law system ill serves the goal of individual justice, in part because it assumes that lay juries can correctly deci...

Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging

Can you imagine hauling around a large, light-tight wooden trunk containing a co-worker or an assistant whom you take out only for occasional, brief interaction. For each session, you would have to open the box, wake up (boot) the assistant, and afterward seal him back in the box. Human dynamics aside, wouldn’t that person seem like more of a burden than a help? In some ways, today’s multimedia...

Serious Tort Law Reform

Tort law is a form of collective intervention into social and economic affairs that carries with it substantial costs, both public and private. These costs include higher prices for goods and services, higher taxes, and the socially undesirable consequences that tort law has on people's behavior such as the failure of companies to develop and introduce products the public wants, the wasteful an...

Reform of the Law

slowly than medicine and this is not in keeping with knowledge about causation and treatment which is the fruit of research. It is ironic that the regulations governing certification still reflect a greater concern for the liberty and good treatment of the patient's body than of his mind, and in some cases they are apparently designed to prevent victimisation by unscrupulous doctors?an attitude...