Exploring Tort Law (Paperback)

Part I. Tort Law in the New Millennium: Past as Prologue: 1. Tort Law through time and culture: themes of economic efficiency M. Stuart Madden; 2. Past as prelude: the legacy of five landmarks of twentieth-century injury law for the future of Torts Robert L. Rabin; Part II. Compensation and Deterrence in the Modern World: 3. Twenty-first century insurance and loss distribution in Tort Law Kenneth S. Abraham; 4. Beyond master-servant: a critique of vicarious liability Jennifer H. Arlen and W. Bentley McLeod; Part III. Duty Rules, Courts, and Torts: 5. The disintegration of duty Ernest J. Weinrib; 6. Managing the negligence concept: respect for the rule of law James A. Henderson, Jr; 7. Rebuilding the citadel: privity, causation, and freedom of contract Richard A. Epstein; 8. Controlling the future of the common law by restatement Jane Stapleton; 9. Information shields in Tort Law David G. Owen; 10. The complexity of torts: the case of punitive damages Guido Calabresi; 11. The future of proportional liability: the lessons of toxic substance causation Michael D. Green; Part IV. Torts in a Shrinking World: 12. Causation in products liability and exposure to toxic substances: a European view Federico Stella; 13. Collective rights and collective actions: examples of European and Latin American contributions Juan Carlos Henao.