Recently in Tort Reform Category

Several weeks ago, I blogged about “Hot Coffee,” a new documentary airing on HBO, that exposes the radical ways in which tort reform advocates are taking Americans’ rights hostage, much to the obliviousness of the typical American. “Hot Coffee” focuses on four legal obstacles that tort reform has placed in the way of ordinary people. [...]

William F. Buckley once quipped that he’d rather be ruled by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book than the Harvard faculty. Well, if Walter Olson’s to be believed, we’re already being ruled by the Harvard faculty – or at least Harvard’s law school faculty – it’s just that most of us don’t [...]

Having studied philosophy as an undergraduate, I remember arriving at law school and quickly being disabused of the idea that my law school experience would be something akin to “The Paper Chase,” with imperious law professors kicking about mind-wracking hypotheticals. I think I learned this sometime in the first week of my first-year torts class, [...]

There’s been a lot of talk in the political blogosphere lately about whether conservatism is suffering from “epistemic closure.” Epistemic closure is a term that has become shorthand for the closing of the conservative mind – the idea that conservatives are recycling the same ideas over and over when they should be inventing new policy [...]

We’re all familiar with the arguments that trial lawyers are the bane of this country’s existence. We hear that the cost of lawsuits and regulation challenges businesses’ ability to compete and create jobs. What we need, we are told, are caps on damages – limitations on the amount that patients can recover for pain-and-suffering in [...]