The imposition of punitive damages is one of the more controversial features of the
American legal system. Trial and appellate courts have struggled for many years to develop …

In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system,
and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in …

TJDUNITIVE" or" exemplary" damages' are money damages I awarded to a plaintiff in a
private civil action, in addition to and apart from compensatory damages, assessed against a …

Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court's three most recent cases deciding the
constitutionality of punitive damages, Professors Rustad and Koenig examine the way …

Two experiments were conducted to study the manner in which civil jurors assess punitive
damage awards. Jury-eligible citizens were shown a videotaped summary of an …

In this Article, I argue that the current problem with punitive damages in the United States is
not, as popularly is believed, that they are out of control and threatening the orderly function …

In many, and perhaps most, modern punitive damages1 t Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in
Law, The University of Chicago Law School; JD Harvard Law School, 1996; AB Duke …

Responding to the perception that civil damage awards are out of control, courts and
legislatures have pursued tort reform efforts largely aimed at reigning in damage awards by …

A contemporary theory ofpunitive damages must answer two questions:(1) What place, if
any, do punitive damages have in the civil law of tort, given that they appear to involve an …

The past decade has witnessed increasing controversy over the award of punitive damages.
1 Today, punitive damages are available in a wide variety of actions, 2 and awards have …