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Taming Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2019)
Blockbuster punitive damages awards, i.e., those awards exceeding $100 million, attract attention based on their sheer size. While there have been fewer such awards in the last decade, they remain an important presence in ...
Efficient Ethical Principles for Making Fatal Choices
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2021)
Resource allocations of all kinds inevitably encounter financial constraints, making it infeasible to make financially unbounded commitments. Such resource constraints arise in almost all health and safety risk contexts, ...
"Sorry" Is Never Enough: How State Apology Laws Fail to Reduce Medical Malpractice Liability Risk
(Stanford Law Review, 2019)
Abstract. Based on case studies indicating that apologies from physicians to patients can promote healing, understanding, and dispute resolution, thirty-nine states (and the District of Columbia) have sought to reduce ...
Rates of Time Preference and Consumer Valuations of Automobile Safety and Fuel Efficiency
(Journal of Law and Economics, 1995)
This article estimates hedonic price models for automobiles using a data set on almost 3,000 households from the U.S. Department of Energy Residential Transportation Energy Consumption Survey. The standard hedonic models ...