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Reflections on Assumption of Risk

Despite calls for the abolition of assumption of risk, and for its merger within comparative fault, the doctrine survives in some jurisdictions, and its spirit endures in most, if not all. The consensual rationale underlying assumption of risk is...

Rethinking Tort Doctrine: Visions of a Restatement (Fourth) of Torts

Tort doctrine is both unduly complex and insufficiently developed. Here are some examples. Intentional wrongdoing and product injuries are now treated as discrete areas of the law, rather than being folded into the basic fields of fault-based...

Deterrence and Corrective Justice

This Article considers, from the standpoint of corrective justice, Gary Schwartz's suggestion that tort law should be understood through a mixed theory that affirms both corrective justice and deterrence. When corrective justice and deterrence are...