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This is a survey of legal liability for accidents. Three general aspects of accident liability are addressed. The first … is the effect of liability on incentives, both whether to engage in activities (for instance, whether to drive) and how …-bearing and insurance, for the liability system acts as an implicit insurer for accident victims and it imposes risk on potential …
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covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we discuss liability rules as incentives to reduce risk, issues of risk …-bearing and insurance, and the costs of the liability system. Second, we consider property law, where we address the nature and …
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We presently lack a good theory for when we should permit parties to litigate using a pseudonym, and American and …
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This chapter presents a strategic model of incentives for care and litigation under asymmetric information and self-serving bias, and studies the effects of damage caps. Our main findings are as follows. First, our results suggest that the defendant's bias decreases his expenditures on accident...
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Several aspects of patent litigation call into question patent holders' motivation for enforcing their exclusionary rights. Indeed, the expense alone can be enough to deter a firm from engaging in litigation, especially if it is likely that the parties will be unable to reach a settlement...
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This article argues that the costs of credit monitoring should be recoverable in cybersecurity tort litigation. If a data subject's personal information has been seriously exposed to improper access by a data possessor's negligence, expenses incurred to detect the opening of unauthorized...
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