Foundations of Tort Law

I. Torts and Bargains The Problem of Social Cost, Ronald H. Coase When Does the Rule of Liability Matter?, Harold Demsetz Consumption Theory, Production Theory, and Ideology in the Case Theorem, Mark Kelman II. The Role of Fault Killing or Wounding to Protect a Property Interest, Richard Posner Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher The Concept of Corrective Justice in Recent Theories of Tort Law, Richard Posner The Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law, Saul Levmore Tort Law and the Economy in Nineteenth-Century America: Reinterpretation, Gary Schwartz Some Effects of Uncertainty on Compliance with Legal Standards, John E. Calfee and Richard Craswell III. The Requirement of Causation Remarks on Causation and Liability, Judith Jarvis Thomson Property, Wrongfulness and the Duty to Compensate, Jules L. Coleman Probabilistic Recoveries, Restitution, and Recurring Wrongs, Saul Levmore Economic Loss In Tort, William Bishop Women, Mothers, and the Law of Fright: A History, Martha Chamallas and Linda K. Kerber IV. The Lawyer's Role Untaken Precautions, Mark Grady Opting for the British Rule, or If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?, John J. Donohue A Market in Personal Injury Tort Claims, Marc Shukaitis V. Liability Arising out of the Workplace The Boundaries of Vicarious Liability: An Economic Analysis, Alan O. Sykes Comment--The Creation of a Common-Law Rule: The Fellow Servant Rule, 1837-1860 Social Change and the Law of Industrial Accidents, Lawrence M. Friedman and Jack Ladinsky VI. Omissions and Commissions Waiting for Rescue: An Essay on the Evolution and Incentive Structure of the Law off Affirmative Obligations, Saul Levmore Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort, Leslie Bender The Case for a Duty to Rescue, Ernest J. Weinrib VII. Tort Liability and Other Means of Social Control Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control, Robert C. Ellickson The Social Consequences of Common-Law Rules, Richard Epstein VIII. Insurance, No-Fault, and Tort Reform The Current Insurance Crisis and Modern Tort Law, George L. Priest Incentive Issues in the Design of "No-Fault" Compenstion Systems, Michael Trebilcock Proposals for Products Liability Reform: A Theoretical Synthesis, Alan Schwartz Some Reflections on the Process of Tort Reform, Robert L. Rabin In the Shadow of the Legislature: The Common Law in the Age of the New Public Law, Daniel Farber and Philip FrickeyLevmore, Saul is the author of 'Foundations of Tort Law' with ISBN 9780195083910 and ISBN 0195083911.