The purpose of this chapter is to survey the academic literature on the economics of litigation
and to synthesize its main themes. The chapter begins by introducing the basic economic …

Chevron, and others have urged that it be curtailed. If Chevron were merely modified rather
than overturned, it is unclear what that modified Chevron would look like. This Article argues …

Every legal dispute is unique. At a sufficiently fine-grained level, of course, the underlying
facts of every case make it one-of-a-kind, but disputes also differ from each other along other …

Extant research shows that entrepreneurs are typically overly optimistic about their ventures'
prospects and that such optimism hampers performance. We analyze how dispositional …

This survey, which updates and expands upon an earlier Encyclopedia entry1 on the
modeling of pretrial settlement bargaining, organizes current main themes and recent …

Background and aims Medical litigation claim and costs in UK are rising. This study aims to
analyse the 10-year trend in litigation costs for individual clinical specialties in the UK from …

Este artigo demonstra como a insegurança jurídica causada pela ausência de
uniformização de jurisprudência (capital jurídico) pode explicar o problema de …

The problem of evil has long perplexed traditional theists: why do terrible events, such as
crimes, wars, and natural disasters, occur in a world believed to be created by an …

In recent years, Congress has repeatedly failed to appropriate funds necessary to honor
legal commitments (or entitlements) that are themselves enacted in permanent law. The …

Standard accident models are based on the expected utility framework and represent
agents' beliefs about accident risk with a probability distribution. Consequently, they do not …