The Shopkeeper’s Privilege and Canadian Tort Law

Modern Tort Law Demystified

Innovation , tort law , and competition

In this paper, we examine the link between innovative activity on the part of firms, the competitive pressure to introduce innovations and optimal damages awards. While innovative activity brings forth valuable new products for consumers, competitive pressure in the ensuing innovation race induces firms to launch innovations too early, thereby raising the likelihood of severe product risks abov...

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 and the American Economy

It is common to hear claims that tort law is undermining the ability of America to grow economically. Tort liability imposes costs on businesses, who complain about its detrimental effects on investment and innovation. While many of these reports are anecdotal, or even false, there is growing evidence on the economic effect of tort law. Tort reform proposals are pressed, and often passed, on th...

the relationship between tort law and the law of bankruptcy

bankruptcy and tort; two apparently distinct branches of law, but, in fact, some technical and theoretical issues arise from their interaction. these include, among others, the boundaries between personal rights of the victim to damages, exclusively allocated to the bankrupt, and the financial damages , which belong to the creditors ; the problems resulting from the chronological order of the b...