- The Economic Structure of Tort Law
- William M. Landes
- Richard A. Posner
- Written by a lawyer and an economist, this is the first full-length economic study of tort law--the body of law that governs liability for accidents and for intentional wrongs such as battery and defamation. Landes and Posner propose that tort law is best understood as a system for achieving an efficient allocation of resources to safety--that, on the whole, rules and doctrines of tort law encourage the optimal investment in safety by potential injurers and potential victims.
- Hardcover 1987
- The Hidden Holmes
- David Rosenberg
- Oliver Wendell Holmes is the acknowledged source of twentieth-century tort law, but David Rosenberg, in this bold book, takes sharp issue with the current portrayal of Holmes as a legal formalist in torts who opposed the notion of strict liability and dogmatically advocated a universal rule of negligence, primarily to subsidize industrial development.
- Hardcover
- The Liability Century
- Kenneth S. Abraham
- Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001.
- Hardcover 2008