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23 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
We joined Byron Stier (Southwestern) at Brown University last weekend on a panel on "Pluralism in Tort Law and Litigation" at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Conference. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
Much of our thinking about torts rightly focuses on the conceptual landscape of substantive law. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 5:14 am
A short week, since this is my spring break and I'm at the Cape (for the first time!). [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
Monday's guest blogger is Richard Nagareda. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 2:20 pm
Gregg Polsky & Dan Markel (both Florida State) have posted to SSRN Taxing Punitive Damages. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 1:56 am
Monday was William Prosser's birthday (he was born in 1898 in New Albany, Indiana). [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 1:44 am
DePaul will host the 16th Annual Clifford Symposium, "The Limits of Predictability and the Value of Uncertainty," on April 8 and 9. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 2:01 am
The New York Daily News reports on the $575 million settlement reached in the 9/11 "first responders" lawsuits. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
Alexandra Lahav (UConn/ Visiting Fordham) has posted "Rough Justice and the Problem of Value in Tort Law" on SSRN. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 8:29 am
Up until recently I was agnostic on the question of whether tort law reflects ends-in-themselves moral values or is simply a positive manifestation of the instrumental means with which to achieve politically-selected social welfare ends. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 4:43 am
Beck gives a critical reading to a press release promoting a qui tam action [Drug & Device Law] New torts scholarship in Northwestern Law Review includes Chris Robinette on intersection of medical apologies with early offers [TortsProf] More on cy... [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 2:23 am
Reform, Legislation, Policy IL: Republican state legislator introduces a constitutional amendment which would allow the legislature to cap medical malpractice damages. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
Monday's guest blogger is James A. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 5:56 am
[Charleston City Paper, with links to complaints, via Sheila Scheuerman, TortsProf] On the erosion of the old “firefighters’ rule” which prevented rescuers from suing over injuries sustained in the course of their rescues, see our tag on the subject. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 2:27 am
The Pepperdine Law Review is hosting a symposium on April 16th, 2010 entitled Does the World Still Need United States Tort Law? [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 12:03 am
Yesterday's Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA) included an article entitled "State's malpractice data offers ammo for both sides" by David Wenner. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 10:06 am
Jon Wiener of The Nation has an interesting cover story, "Big Tobacco & the Historians: A Tale of Seduction and Intimidation," in last week's issue. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 2:01 am
The Wall Street Journal reports that several food manufacturers are replacing high fructose corn syrup with sugar in many big name products, such as Wheat Thins and Gatorade: More big-name food and beverage products—including Kraft Foods Inc.'s Wheat Thins —have... [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
Civ Pro Profs have the details. - SBS [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
Courts generally turn to industry standards for determining the duty owed by owners and operators of professional sports facilities to their customers. [read post]
