The Diffusion of Doctrinal Innovations in Tort Law

Modern Tort Law Demystified

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...

Doctrinal Categories, Legal Realism, and the Rule of Law

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1889 I. THE REALIST CONCEPTION OF LAW .................................................. 1891 II. THE ROLE OF DOCTRINE AND THE RULE OF LAW ........................... 1898 III. DOCTRINAL CATEGORIES, REALISTICALLY RECONSTRUCTED ........... 1905 IV. A CASE STUDY: ON PROPERTY AND PROPERTY INSTITUTI...

Tort Law Culture in the United Kingdom:

This article highlights two contrasting sets of images of tort that are dominant in UK culture. The first set reflects various aspects of the traditional portrayal of justice, which depicts tort as an independent ‘natural’ system of rules of universal application forming the foundation of a just society. The second group of images is more recent and relates to the perceived development of a dam...

Tort Law: The Languages of Duty