this essay, we provide an overview of the economic approach to tort law, analyzing the effects of liability rules on care … incentives. We catalogue a variety of possible tort regimes, systematically breaking down possible assignments of liability in …

critically examine the role of exemplary damages in civil liability jurisprudence. Scope of the paper is limited to discuss in … detail about the concept of exemplary damages in tortious liability and its applications in India, The UK and in the USA …

In the law and economics literature the question of efficiency of liability rules has primarily been analyzed in the … liability with the defense of contributory negligence are efficient, the rules of no liability and strict liability are not …

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 …

liability …