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already burdened by residual liability. We suggest that the interaction between evidence and substantive tort rules is an …
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This article examines the Private International Law (Choice of Law in Tort) Bill, referred to the New Zealand Justice and Electoral Select Committee at the end of 2016. The authors explore the potential effects of the Bill, such as the abolition of the double actionability rule, along with...
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that this informational role of tort law is more pronounced under the rule of negligence than under strict liability, since … production of information under the negligence rule may render the negligence rule more efficient than strict liability when the … liability. Under strict liability, by contrast, the injurer will take out insurance, which induces moral hazard. The rule of …
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that this informational role of tort law is more pronounced under the rule of negligence than under strict liability, since … production of information under the negligence rule may render the negligence rule more efficient than strict liability when the … liability. Under strict liability, by contrast, the injurer will take out insurance, which induces moral hazard. The rule of …
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Courts assessing compensatory damages awards often lack adequate information to determine the value of a victim's loss. A central reason for this problem, which the literature has thus far overlooked, is that courts face a dilemma when applying their standard information-forcing tool to the...
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This paper develops a new method to calculate individual-specific damage payments in discrimination lawsuits using empirical Bayes techniques and a simple random coefficients model. The method yields payments that can be mathematically proven to be more accurate than existing statistically-based...
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How would the Fair Calculations in Civil Damages Act of 2016 (the “Act”) impact economic damages calculations related to the retirement process? The Act covers discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or actual or perceived sexual orientation. This paper focuses on gender...
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Twenty-five years have passed since courts first adopted market share liability, a theory under which a plaintiff … manufacturer that might have made the product. Courts have severely restricted the reach of this potentially powerful theory by … market share liability to a very small number of products.This Article argues that courts should eliminate the fungibility …
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Laws governing relations between spouses have undergone profound changes that continue to revolutionize the standards and procedures for dissolutions of marriage. The most dramatic changes in divorce law have come from the advent of no-fault divorce, the decline in spousal maintenance awards,...
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