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Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide

Cass R. Sunstein, et al., Professor, University of Chicago School of Law (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

Punitive Damages examines the role of one of the United States� most prized democratic institutions: juries. The authors, including legal experts, psychologists, and an economist, used over 600 mock juries to analyze the decision-making processes of jurors, specifically on the issue of punitive damage awards. The authors learn how jurors make vastly different punitive damage awards�even in factually identical cases�and how this can affect our understanding of the jury institution in a broader context.


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Published by the Manhattan Institute

The Manhattan Insitute's Center for Legal Policy.