The Economics of Tort Law: A Precis

Tort Liability for Software Developers: a Law & Economics Perspective

This article explores the economic rationale for applying product liability law to computer software. As demonstrated below, a well-designed liability regime must place liability upon all parties who economically control the risks of accidents. Accordingly, this article finds that strict liability may be appropriate for certain types of “intrinsic” software, but not for other types of software ...

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...

Tort Law: The Languages of Duty

Common-Law Background of Nineteenth-Century Tort Law, The