Books
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.

Patrick M. Garry, Associate Professor, University of South Dakota School of Law (Insight Books, 1997)


Peter A. Bell, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law and Jeffrey O'Connell, Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (Yale University Press, 1999)


Robert A. Kagan, Professor, University of California at Berkeley (Harvard University Press, 2003)


Peter H. Schuck, Professor, Yale Law School (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1986)


Deborah R. Hensler, et al., RAND Institute for Civil Justice (RAND, 2000)


Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod, Professors, New York Law School (Yale University Press, 2003)


Steven Shavell, Professor, Harvard Law School (Harvard University Press, 1987)


Don Dewees, David Duff, and Michael Trebilcock, Professors of Law, University of Toronto (Oxford University Press, 1996)


Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Basic Books, August 1991)


John Stossel, Host, ABC News 20/20 (Harper Collins, 2004)


Tim Lynch, ed., Director, Cato Institute Criminal Justice Project (Cato Institute, 2009)


Eric A. Helland, Professor, Claremont-McKenna College; and Alexander Tabarrok, Professor, George Mason University (Independent Institute, 2006)


Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Kenneth R. Foster, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania (MIT Press, 1997)


Lester Brickman (Cambridge University Press, February 2011)


Francesco Parisi, Professor, George Mason University School of Law, University of Milan School of Law (University of California at Berkeley, 1992)


Edited by Robert E. Litan and Clifford Winston, Senior Fellows, Brookings Institution (Brookings Institution, 1988)


Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Basic Books, 1988)


Stuart P. Green, Professor of Law and Justice Nathan L. Jacobs, Scholar, Rutgers School of Law-Newark (Oxford University Press, 2007)


Charles Fried and David Rosenberg, Professors, Harvard Law School (AEI Press, 2003)


Richard A. Epstein, Professor, University of Chicago School of Law (Quorum Books, 1980)


Edited by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (The Academy of Political Science, 1988)


Edited 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)


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


W. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (Harvard University Press, 1991)


Edited by Larry Kramer, Professor and Dean, Stanford Law School (NYU Press, 1996)


Edited by W. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2002)


Marcia Angell, M.D., Executive Editor, New England Journal of Medicine (W. W. Norton and Company, 1996)


W. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (University of Chicago Press, 2002)


Catherine Crier, Host, Court TV�s Crier Report (Broadway, 2002)


Philip K. Howard, Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling (Ballentine Books, 2002)


Hon. Guido Calabresi, Second Circuit Unites States Court of Appeals and Former Dean, Yale Law School (Yale University Press, 1970)


Philip K. Howard, Partner, Covington & Burling (Random House, 1994)


William M. Landes, Professor, University of Chicago; and Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School (Harvard University Press, 1987)


Walter K. Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (The Free Press, June 1997)


Edited by Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and Robert E. Litan, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (Brookings Institution, 1991)


Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books, 1991)

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Richard Neely, Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (Free Press, 1988)


Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's, 2003)


Henry N. Butler, Professor, Chapman University; and Larry E. Ribstein, Professor, the University of Illinois College of Law (AEI Press 2006)


Edited by Peter H. Schuck, Professor, Yale Law School (The American Assembly, 1991)


Paul H. Rubin, Professor of Economics, Emory University (AEI Press, 1993)


John Hasnas, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University (Cato Institute, 2006)

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