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The books below vary from classics in the field of tort law to modern treatments; they include both popular writings and more academic approaches. As with the articles list, this listing of books is not intended to be comprehensive. The titles should, however, both help to initiate the novice to our tort law system and to offer depth to those desiring a more thorough examination of various issues.
Attorneys' Fees and Ethics
Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco DealW. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Class Actions
Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private GainDeborah R. Hensler, et al., RAND Institute for Civil Justice (RAND, 2000)
Criminal Law and Prosecution
In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article "The Aims of the Criminal Law"Tim Lynch, ed., Director, Cato Institute Criminal Justice Project (Cato Institute, 2009)
Lying, Cheating and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar CrimeStuart P. Green, Professor of Law and Justice Nathan L. Jacobs, Scholar, Rutgers School of Law-Newark (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against The LawJohn Hasnas, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University (Cato Institute, 2006)
Employment Law
The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law is Paralyzing the American WorkplaceWalter K. Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (The Free Press, June 1997)
Loser Pays
The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the LawsuitWalter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books, 1991)
Download PDFs: Chapter 2 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 15
Medicine and Law
The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our FreedomPhilip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling (Ballentine Books, 2002)
Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the LawEdited by Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Kenneth R. Foster, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; David E. Bernstein, Professor, George Mason University School of Law (MIT Press, 1993)
The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and InnovationEdited by Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Robert E. Litan, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (Brookings Institution, 1991)
Miscellaneous
Gimme a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...John Stossel, Host, ABC News 20/20 (Harper Collins, 2004)
The Case Against LawyersCatherine Crier, Host, Court TV�s Crier Report (Broadway, 2002)
The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our FreedomPhilip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling (Ballentine Books, 2002)
Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort LawPeter A. Bell, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law and Jeffrey O'Connell, Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (Yale University Press, 1999)
The Death of Common SensePhilip K. Howard, Partner, Covington & Burling (Random House, 1994)
The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the LawsuitWalter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books, 1991)
Download PDFs: Chapter 2 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 15
Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its ConsequencesPeter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Basic Books, 1988)
The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic AnalysisHon. Guido Calabresi, Second Circuit Unites States Court of Appeals and Former Dean, Yale Law School (Yale University Press, 1970)
Politics
Making Tort Law: What Should Be Done and Who Should Do ItCharles Fried and David Rosenberg, Professors, Harvard Law School (AEI Press, 2003)
The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our FreedomPhilip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling (Ballentine Books, 2002)
Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort LawPeter A. Bell, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law and Jeffrey O'Connell, Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (Yale University Press, 1999)
Tort Reform by ContractPaul H. Rubin, Professor of Economics, Emory University (AEI Press, 1993)
The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the LawsuitWalter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books, 1991)
Download PDFs: Chapter 2 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 15
Procedure
Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort LawPeter A. Bell, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law and Jeffrey O'Connell, Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (Yale University Press, 1999)
Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal CourtsPeter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Kenneth R. Foster, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania (MIT Press, 1997)
Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the CourtroomPeter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Basic Books, August 1991)
The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the LawsuitWalter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books, 1991)
Download PDFs: Chapter 2 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 15
Products Liability
Reforming Products LiabilityW. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (Harvard University Press, 1991)
The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and InnovationEdited by Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Robert E. Litan, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (Brookings Institution, 1991)
Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its ConsequencesPeter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Basic Books, 1988)
Modern Products Liability LawRichard A. Epstein, Professor, University of Chicago School of Law (Quorum Books, 1980)
Regulation Through Litigation
Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run GovernmentRoss Sandler and David Schoenbrod, Professors, New York Law School (Yale University Press, 2003)
The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of LawWalter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's, 2003)
Regulation Through LitigationEdited by W. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2002)
Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco DealW. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic AnalysisHon. Guido Calabresi, Second Circuit Unites States Court of Appeals and Former Dean, Yale Law School (Yale University Press, 1970)
Scientific Evidence
Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal CourtsPeter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Kenneth R. Foster, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania (MIT Press, 1997)
Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the LawEdited by Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Kenneth R. Foster, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; David E. Bernstein, Professor, George Mason University School of Law (MIT Press, 1993)
Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the CourtroomPeter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Basic Books, August 1991)
Statistics/Empirical Work
Reforming Products LiabilityW. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (Harvard University Press, 1991)
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