Articles

PDF

Liability for Possible Wrongs: Causation, Statistical Probability and the Burden of Proof, in Symposium, The Frontiers of Tort Law, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (2008)
Courts around the world are increasingly considering whether liability should exist in various types of...
 

PDF

Hand, Posner, and the Myth of the "Hand Formula", in Symposium, Negligence in the Law, Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2003)
There is a striking incongruence between the discussions of negligence in the legal literature, including...
 

PDF

The Grounds and Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, What Do Compensatory Damages Compensate?, San Diego Law Review (2003)
This article identifies and discusses the three principal limitations on the extent of legal responsibility...
 

PDF

Justice and Reasonable Care in Negligence Law, American Journal of Jurisprudence (2002)
The academic literature generally assumes that an aggregate-risk-utility test is employed to determine whether conduct...
 

PDF

Negligence in the Courts: Introduction and Commentary, in Symposium, Negligence in the Courts: The Actual Practice, Chicago-Kent Law Review (2002)
This article is an introduction to and commentary on the contributions to a "Symposium on...
 

PDF

Once More Into the Bramble Bush: Duty, Causal Contribution, and the Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, The John W. Wade Conference on the Third Restatement of Torts, Vanderbilt Law Review (2001)
Courts, lawyers, law students, and academics continue to confuse the empirical issue of causal contribution...
 

PDF

The Principles of Justice, in Symposium, Propter Honoris Respectum: John Finnis, Notre Dame Law Review (2000)
Many theorists claim that justice is a question-begging concept that has no inherent substantive content....
 

PDF

Principled Adjudication: Tort Law and Beyond, Canterbury Law Review (1999)
The article briefly discusses the impossibility of a strict formalist or positivist approach to legal...
 

PDF

Understanding Joint and Several Liability, Shepard's Illinois Tort Reporter (1991)
 

PDF

Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater: A Reply to Professor Twerski, University Of California at Davis Law Review (1989)
 

PDF

Causation in Tort Law, California Law Review (1985)
 

PDF

The Constitution as Positive Law, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (1972)
 

Books

Contributions to Books

Proving Facts: Belief versus Probability, European Tort Law 2008 (2009)
 

The Nightmare and the Noble Dream: Hart and Honoré on Causation and Responsibility, The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart: Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy (2008)
 

PDF

Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes, Emerging Issues in Tort Law (2007)
 

PDF

discussed in Federico Stella, The Vitality of the Covering Law Model: Considerations on Wright and Mackie, , translation by Federico Stella of "La vitalità del modello della sussunzione sotto leggi. A confronto il pensiero di Wright e Mackie," in Federico Stella, I Saperi del Giudice. La Causalità e Il Ragionevole Dubbio 1-70 (Milan 2004). (2004)
 

PDF

discussed in Federico Stella, Criminal omissions, causality, probability, counterfactuals: Medical-surgical activity, translation by Federico Stella of "Causalità omissiva, probabilità, giudizi controfattuali: l'attività medico-chirurgica", in Federico Stella, Il Giudice Corpuscolariano. La Cultura delle Prove 201-43 (Milan 2005). (2003)
 

Substantive Corrective Justice, The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (2nd Series), Tort Law (2002)
 

Causation in the Law, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (2001)
 

PDF

The Principles of Justice, Ethics: Readings & Materials (2001)
 

PDF

Right, Justice, and Tort Law, Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (1995)
 

PDF

The Standards of Care in Negligence Law, Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (1995)
 

Causation in Tort Law, The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, Tort Law (1991)
 

PDF

Mineral Facts and Fictions,, Public Lands and the U.S. Economy (1984)
 

Other

PDF

The Vitality of Joint and Several Liability: Brief Amici Curiae of American Law Professors in Support of Respondents (2002)
Tort reform advocates hoped to use a recent case, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v....