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Complexity Theory as a Paradigm for the Dynamical Law-and-Society System: A Wake-up Call for Legal Reductionism and the Modern Administrative State
(Duke Law Journal, 1996)
This article is the first in my series of articles exploring the application of complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to legal systems. It builds the basic model of CAS and maps it onto legal systems, offering some suggestions ...
The National Implications of Liability Reforms for General Liability and Medical Malpractice Insurance
(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)
The stabilization of the insurance market may lead to lower prices for products and for medical care, but will also generally lead to lower values of tort awards as well. If the social objective was simply to reduce losses, ...
Medical Malpractice Insurance in the Wake of Liability Reform
(The Journal of Legal Studies, 1995)
This article examines the effect of the liability reforms on medical malpractice insurance over the 1984-91 period. This is the first study to use data by firm and by state for every firm writing medical malpractice insurance ...
A Statistical Profile of Pharmaceutical Industry Liability, 1976-1989
(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)
There is little question that the imposition of constraints on awards and other pro-defendant changes in the liability regime will reduce liability costs. However, the patterns observed in the federal courts are quite ...
The American Criminal Jury
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 1999)
As juries become both less common and more expensive, some have questioned the wisdom of preserving the criminal jury in its present form. The benefits of the jury are difficult to quantify, but jury verdicts continue to ...