†† Formerly called Compensation and Liability for Product and Process Injuries.

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This two-volume, softbound Reporters’ Study constitutes a report to the Institute rather than by the Institute. The first volume details the legal and social concerns that gave rise to the study in the mid-1980s, and distills contemporary scholarship dealing with how well various institutions—prominently, but not exclusively, tort litigation—have performed in addressing the human and economic problems created by personal injuries. The second volume undertakes an in-depth analysis of those facets of the tort system that have proved especially troublesome in recent years and presents the Reporters’ judgments about how the tort system should evolve in the future. An important theme in the second volume is the emphasis on the room that tort law should give to market competition, social insurance, and administrative regulation in order to enhance the capacity of these institutions to build a fairer, more sensible personal injury regime.

Chief Reporter: Paul C. Weiler, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts [from 1989]; Richard B. Stewart, Washington, District of Columbia [to 1989].

Associate Reporters: Kenneth S. Abraham, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia; Robert L. Rabin, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California [from 1988]; David Rosenberg, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; W. Kip Viscusi, Economics Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Paul Weiler [to 1989].

Contributors: Troyen A. Brennan, M. D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Donald N. Dewees, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [from 1989]; Lance M. Liebman, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts [from 1988]; Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina [from 1989]; Michael J. Trebilcock, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [from 1989].

Special Advisers: Jeffrey O’Connell, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia [from 1989]; Gary T. Schwartz, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, California [from 1989].

Advisers: ‡Richard Sheppard Arnold, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Little Rock, Arkansas; ‡Sheila L. Birnbaum, New York, New York [from 1990]; ‡Michael Boudin, Washington, District of Columbia; Guido Calabresi, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Jack G. Clarke, Irving, Texas; Dennis R. Connolly, New York, New York; Noel Fidel, Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Phoenix, Arizona [from 1988]; George S. Frazza, New Brunswick, New Jersey; ‡George Clemon Freeman, Jr., Richmond, Virginia; Laurence Gold, Washington, District of Columbia [from 1988]; Howard Hiatt, M. D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Edward J. Huth, M. D., Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [to 1990]; Charles L. Levin, Justice, Supreme Court of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan; Marilyn Hall Patel, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, California [from 1988]; J. Vernon Patrick, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama; George L. Priest, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Paul D. Rheingold, New York, New York; David B. Roe, Environmental Defense Fund, Oakland, California; Steven Shavell, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Richard B. Stewart [from 1989]; Samuel O. Thier, M. D., Institute of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia.

‡Adviser to the Council.

Progress Report vii, 27 pp., 1987, Order Code 5860, $5 -- Order this item

Progress Report vi, 30 pp., 1988, Order Code 5932, $5 -- Order this item

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