[i]Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts[/i], edited by Jennifer Arlen, published
The Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts, edited by ’86, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, was released this month.
The handbook features 31 contributors, including Arlen, among them five additional School of Law faculty members: , Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law; , Sheila Lubetsky Birnbaum Professor of Civil Litigation; , Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law; , Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law; and , Crystal Eastman Professor of Law.
John Goldberg ’91, Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-author of Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (3rd ed. 2012), praised this new collection of essays, calling it “indispensable”: “Professor Arlen has assembled an academic all-star team, and its members have prepared up-to-date, high quality, and accessible treatments of centrally important topics ranging from causation and damages to vicarious liability and insurance to tort reform and tort alternatives. With respect to the analysis of tort law through the lenses of empirical and microeconomic analysis, this is now the go-to volume.”
Besides editing the handbook, Arlen wrote the introduction and contributed the essay, “Economic Analysis of Medical Malpractice Liability and its Reform."
Posted on January 8, 2014