Stephen D. Sugarman is the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall).
Articles
Roles of Government in Compensating Disaster Victims, Issues in Legal Scholarship (2007)
Government has many roles to play with respect to the compensation of victims of catastrophes:...
The “Necessity” Defense And The Failure Of Tort Theory: The Case Against Strict Liability For Damages Caused While Exercising Self-Help In An Emergency, Issues in Legal Scholarship (2006)
A Comparative Law Look at Pain and Suffering Awards, DePaul Law Review (2006)
Comparing tort awards for pain and suffering in the U.S. with European nations, Canada and...
Tort Reform Through Damages Law Reform, Sydney Law Review (2005)
In this article I compare tort damages law in Australia (most expecially recent reforms in...
Let's Try Performance-Based Regulation to Attack Our Smoking and Obesity Problems, Boalt Hall Transcript (2005)
Instead of "command and control" regulation, and instead of litigation, let's try "performance-based regulation" as...
Books
"Pay at the Pump" Auto Insurance: The California Vehicle Injury Plan (VIP) for Better Compensation, Fairer Funding, and Greater Safety (1993)
This small book offers the basic argument for a comprehensive auto no-fault plan that is...
Contributions to Books
Ideoloigcal Flip-Flop: American Liberals Are Now the Primary Supporters of Tort Law, Essays on Tort, Insurance, Law and Society in Honour of Bill W. Dufwa (2006)
Traditionally structured to function to favor defendants, tort law around 1960 was a regime that...
A New Approach to Tort Doctrine: Taking the Best from the Civil Law and Common Law of Canada, The Joy of Torts (2003)
Canadian tort law follows the common law in most provinces, but the civil law in...
A Regulated Market in Unmatured Tort Claims: Tort Reform by Contract (with Robert D. Cooter and Stephen D. Sugarman), New Direction in Liability Law (1998)
Other
Fighting Childhood Obesity through Performance-Based Regulation of the Food Industry (with Nirit Sandman) (2007)
That childhood obesity is an alarming public health problem is clear and widely appreciated. What...