Framework and goals of the system The social goals of malpractice litigation include
deterrence against unsafe practices, compensation for injury through negligence, and exact …

This Article contests some of our most reassuring self-perceptions and offers a new way of
thinking about our legal theories, our laws, our institutions, and, above all, ourselves. In lieu …

More and more Americans are turning to health care professionals to help plan their family
lives.'Nearly two in seven women of child-bearing age in the United States now rely on …

Property rights and contract law are two of our most basic legal categories. Many legal
scholars describe what makes them different; this Article describes how they work together …

A San Francisco jury recently awarded a nine-year-old boy $70.9 million in damages after
finding a hospital and medical clinic negligent for failing to diagnose his metabolic disease …

When the US Supreme Court faced a novel tort law issue in 2019 in Air & Liquid Systems
Corp. v. De Vries1-namely, whether the manufacturer of a" bare-metal" product such as a …

Code crashes. Yet for decades, software failures have escaped scrutiny for tort liability.
Those halcyon days are numbered: self-driving cars, delivery drones, networked medical …

For over thirty years, repeat players on the defense side of tort litigation have undertaken to"
reform" tort doctrine in their favor. Initially, these efforts consisted of ad hoc efforts to address …

America is fat. For some, the evidence is readily apparent: a cavernous dent in the once-
sturdy couch, the belt which grows like kudzu, the cruel reminders in the eyes of strangers …

ABSTRACT Michael L. Rustad and Thomas H. Koenig propose a new tort of negligent
enablement which will hold software vendors accountable for defective products and …