Information technology is spreading in all fields of our lives. We use new technologies for many purposes, but many of us are not willing to learn more than necessary basics. The author elaborates some of the legal cases that were discussed in courts, and that show the responsibility of the...

This paper analyzes liability rules when consumers and third parties/the environment incur harm. Expected harm is convex in the level of output and modeled as a power function. We show that the social ranking of liability rules previously established for the case in which only consumers suffer...

Attorneys elected to the US House of Representatives and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law. This finding is based on the analysis of 54 votes at the federal...