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Torts - Negligence
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Illusory Losses
March 20, 2024
Cass R. Sunstein, Illusory Losses, 37 J. Legal Stud. S157 (2008).
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Steven M. Shavell, On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering, 37 J. Legal Stud. 37 (2008).
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Statistics, Not Experts
February 6, 2024
William L. Meadow & Cass R. Sunstein, Statistics, Not Experts, 51 Duke L.J. 629 (2001).
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Does the Nonprofit Form Fit the Hospital Industry?
February 6, 2024
Robert C. Clark, Does the Nonprofit Form Fit the Hospital Industry?, 93 Harv. L. Rev. 1416 (1980).
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Potential Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators During COVID-19: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Needed Reforms
February 2, 2024
I. Glenn Cohen, Andrew M. Crespo & Douglas B. White, Potential Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators During COVID-19: Assessing the Risks and Identifying…
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Priestley v. Fowler (1837) and the Emerging Tort of Negligence
January 25, 2024
Michael Ashley Stein, Priestley v. Fowler (1837) and the Emerging Tort of Negligence, 44 B.C. L. Rev. 689 (2003).
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Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries
January 25, 2024
Michael Ashley Stein, Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 933.
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Causation in Tort: General Populations vs. Individual Cases
January 25, 2024
William L. Meadow & Cass R. Sunstein, Causation in Tort: General Populations vs. Individual Cases (U. Chi. L. & Econ., Olin Working Paper No. 130,…
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Statistics, Not Memories: What Was the Standard of Care for Administering Antenatal Steroids to Women in Preterm Labor between 1985 and 2000?
January 25, 2024
William L. Meadow, Anthony Bell & Cass R. Sunstein, Statistics, Not Memories: What Was the Standard of Care for Administering Antenatal Steroids to Women in…
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Are Juries Less Erratic than Individuals? Deliberation, Polarization, and Punitive Damages
January 25, 2024
David Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein & Daniel Kahneman, Are Juries Less Erratic than Individuals? Deliberation, Polarization, and Punitive Damages (U. Chi. L. Sch., John M.
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Deliberating About Dollars: The Severity Shift
January 25, 2024
David Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein & Daniel Kahneman, Deliberating About Dollars: The Severity Shift, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 1139 (2000).
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An Alternative to the Basic Causal Requirement for Liability Under the Negligence Rule
January 25, 2024
Steven Shavell, An Alternative to the Basic Causal Requirement for Liability Under the Negligence Rule (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr., Discussion Paper No.
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A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, A Note on Optimal Cleanup and Liability After Environmentally Harmful Dishcarges, 16 Res. L. & Econ. 17 (1994).
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Contingent Valuation of the Nonuse Value of Natural Resources: Implications for Public Policy and the Liability System
January 25, 2024
Steven Shavell, Contingent Valuation of the Nonuse Value of Natural Resources: Implications for Public Policy and the Liability System, in Contingent Valuation: A Critical Assessment…
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Should Employees be Subject to Fines and Imprisonment Given Existence of Corporate Liability?
January 25, 2024
A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Should Employees be Subject to Fines and Imprisonment Given Existence of Corporate Liability?, 13 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ.
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Steven Shavell, On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles, 49 J. Legal Stud. 243 (2020).
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Liability for Accidents
January 25, 2024
Steven M. Shavell, Liability for Accidents, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume eds., 2nd ed. 2008).
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A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, Optimal Cleanup and Liability after Environmentally Harmful Discharges (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res., Working Paper No. w4176, Sept. 1992).