). Finally, we offer considerations on the optimal design of liability rules. …

courts, of no litigation costs and of no insurance. They assumed that the threat of tort liability can induce due (efficient … context, to insurance, to institutional liability, to the importance of experimental research and empirical data, and to the … alternatives to tort liability. Other traits of the mature economic analysis are recognition, even by its proponents, that actual …

justice theory, Robert Stevens's rights theory, and Richard Posner's economic theory. This article begins by explaining why it …

the heart of legal theory. Early economic analysis of tort law accomplished this fit through insistence on several … scholarship created a novel form of legal theory, intimately connecting legal scholarship with economic research. Once these … positive theory of tort law, which was the key element invigorating economic analysis as a legal theory …

compensate a larger number of injured plaintiffs under a rule of strict liability? Is the function of compensation instead … of compensation and deterrence do not obviously cohere into a viable theory of tort law, making the approach incoherent … does not limit liability to violations of conventional morality or customary practices in the community. For historical and …