the uncertainty about the risks in question, and involve three trade-offs: innovation vs. risk avoidance; liability vs … liability and the measures taken in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack …

emergence and development of formal approaches to risk in health, safety, and environmental law during the twentieth century. It … more fundamental clash over environmental law’s distinctive problem of knowledge. The Article covers the formative period … under an emerging administrative law of risk …

politics? This chapter presents the most relevant law and economics theories for the field of risk regulation. It first … paradigm for risk regulation. While among law and economics scholars and in regulatory circles, consensus coalesced around the … chapter concludes that it is time for law and economics scholars to re-think the cost-benefit paradigm by seriously reforming …

Law and economics are both hostile to liability for exposure to risk without actual harm. Harm is the foundation of …

status. Second, we argue that beyond ethics, transparent policies are needed so their compliance with law can be tested, and …

restrictive vision of liability-based regulation, on the grounds that uncertainty poses an existential threat to insurance markets …Insurance ideas inform legal thought: from tort law, to health law, to theories of distributive justice. Within legal … tort law might achieve in practice the objectives of tort theory. Significantly for tort theory, this ideal type supports a …

risks, if they become reality, may cause substantial increases in operating costs or threaten the very survival of the … Article has five sections. First, we provide a background and overview of franchising. Second, a primer on franchise law …

credit risk. We consider a context in which systemic default induces externalities that amplify the private cost of financial …