SSRN Law & Society: Private Law

1.

The Cat in the Microwave? (Die Katze in der Mikrowelle?)

Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft, Vol. 8, p. 598, 2003

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Jan 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Georg Wenglorz and Patrick S. Ryan

Independent and Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Interdisciplinary Center for Law and Information Technology (ICRI)

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2.

Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: A Study of the 'Generative Grammar' Model of Moral Theory Described by John Rawls in 'A Theory of Justice.' (Phd Dissertation, Cornell University, 2000)

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 766464

Number of pages: 388 Posted: 28 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 04 May 2009

Working Paper Series

John Mikhail

Georgetown University Law Center

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3.

Rome II and Tort Conflicts: A Missed Opportunity

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 56, 2008

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Nov 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Symeon C. Symeonides

Willamette University - College of Law

Downloads 2,458

4.

What is Tort Law for? Part 1: The Place of Corrective Justice

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1/2010

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 19 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2010

Working Paper Series

John Gardner

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,429

5.

Sue My Car Not Me: Products Liability and Accidents Involving Autonomous Vehicles

2013 U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol'y 247

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey K. Gurney

Thomas, Fisher, Sinclair & Edwards

Downloads 2,369

6.

Freedom, Responsibility and Risk: Fundamental Principles Supporting Tort Reform

Indiana Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 645, 2003

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Apr 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah La Fetra

Pacific Legal Foundation

Downloads 2,332

7.

Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2015] UKSC 2

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 21/2015

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2015

Working Paper Series

Nicholas McBride

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,842

8.

Sit, Stay, Drive: The Future of Autonomous Car Liability

16 SMU Sci. & Tech. Law Rev. 101 (Winter 2013)

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Sophia Duffy and Jamie Patrick Hopkins

The American College and The American College

Downloads 1,619

9.

Police Liability in Negligence for Failure to Prevent Crime: Time to Rethink

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 39/2014

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2014

Working Paper Series

Stelios Tofaris and Sandy Steel

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford

Downloads 1,504

10.

Rescue Without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue

84 Texas Law Review 653, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE05-018

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 07 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2015

Accepted Paper Series

David A. Hyman

Georgetown University

Downloads 1,432

11.

Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION: MORAL COGNITION AND DECISION MAKING, D. Medin, L. Skitka, C. W. Bauman, D. Bartels, eds., Vol. 50, Academic Press, 2009, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1163422

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 23 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

John Mikhail

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 1,430

12.

Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2015, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-13

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 03 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2016

Accepted Paper Series

A. Michael Froomkin and Zak Colangelo

University of Miami - School of Law and University of Miami - School of Law

Downloads 1,399

13.

A Revolution in Duty of Care?

James Goudkamp, 'A Revolution in Duty of Care?' (2015) 131 Law Quarterly Review pp.519–525., Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16/2016,

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 26 Feb 2016

Accepted Paper Series

James Goudkamp

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,389

14.

Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 17, p. 133, 1982, Seattle University School of Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Richard Delgado

University of Alabama - School of Law

Downloads 1,369

15.

Omniveillance, Google, Privacy in Public, and the Right to Your Digital Identity: A Tort for Recording and Disseminating an Individual's Image over the Internet

Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 49, p. 313

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 05 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Josh Blackman

South Texas College of Law Houston

Downloads 1,304

16.

Technological Opacity, Predictability, and Self-Driving Cars

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 38, 2016

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Harry Surden and Mary-Anne Williams

University of Colorado Law School and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Downloads 1,245

17.

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Limits of Civil Liability

Washington Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Oct 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Ronen Perry

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,234

18.

The Impact of the Civil Liability Legislation on Fundamental Policies and Principles of the Common Law of Negligence

Torts Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 268-300, 2006, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 07/01

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jan 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Barbara McDonald

The University of Sydney Law School

Downloads 1,185

19.

A Tale of Two Bloggers: Free Speech and Privacy in the Blogosphere

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 1195, 2006, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 207, Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 May 2006 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 1,174

20.

Online Harassment, Defamation, and Hateful Speech: A Primer of the Legal Landscape

Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy Report No. 2

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 10 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alice E. Marwick and Ross W. Miller

Data & Society Research Institute and Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 1,173

21.

The Scope and Potential of FTC Data Protection

83 George Washington Law Review 2230 (2015), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2014-40, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-40

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 01 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Woodrow Hartzog and Daniel J. Solove

Northeastern University School of Law and College of Computer and Information Science and George Washington University Law School

Downloads 1,169

22.

Does Tort Reform Affect Physician Supply? Evidence from Texas

nearly final version, published in International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 42, 2015, pp. 203-218, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper 12-11, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS12-12, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 225

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2015

Working Paper Series

David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, Bernard S. Black and Myungho Paik

Georgetown University, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Hanyang University - College of Policy Science

Downloads 1,163

23.

Torts as Wrongs

Texas Law Review, Vol. 88, 2010 , Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1576644

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 26 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

John C. P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky

Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 1,157

24.

Of Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life, Comparative Law and the Politics of Tort Law Systems

Tydskrif vir Heedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg (THRHR), Vol. 72, p. 257, 2009

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Ivo Giesen

Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law

Downloads 1,142

25.

The Poverty of the Moral Stimulus

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY, THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, ed., Vol. 1, MIT Press, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 896388

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Apr 2006

Accepted Paper Series

John Mikhail

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 1,134

26.

The Reasonable Person

New York University Law Review, Vol. 87, pp. 323-392, 2012

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 05 May 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Alan D. Miller and Ronen Perry

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,114

27.

It's a Wonderful Life

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 93, pp. 329-99, 2008

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 04 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Ronen Perry

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,092

28.

Yes, I Destroyed the Evidence – Sue Me? Intentional Spoliation of Evidence in Illinois

John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, 2010

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Michael A. Zuckerman

Jones Day

Downloads 1,033

29.

Access to Information, Access to Justice: The Role of Presuit Investigatory Discovery

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2007, U of Houston Law Center No. 2006-W-04, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 88

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2011

Working Paper Series

Lonny Hoffman

University of Houston Law Center

Downloads 1,015

30.

Doctors, Apologies, and the Law: An Analysis and Critique of Apology Laws

Journal of Health Law, Vol. 39, No. 4, Fall 2006

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 07 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Marlynn Wei

Massachusetts General Hospital

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,012

31.

Notification of Data Security Breaches

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 105, p. 913, 2007, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 58

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 14 Jun 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Paul M. Schwartz and Edward J. Janger

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Brooklyn Law School

Downloads 997

32.

Proximity-Driven Liability

102 Georgetown Law Journal 1777 (2014)

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Bryant Walker Smith

University of South Carolina - School of Law

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33.

Choice of Law in Cross-Border Torts

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 15 Jan 2009

Working Paper Series

Symeon C. Symeonides

Willamette University - College of Law

Downloads 961

34.

Autonomous Cars and Tort Liability

Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2012

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2014

Working Paper Series

Kyle Colonna

Independent

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35.

Dirty Pictures: Defamation, Reputation and Nudity

Law Text Culture, No. 10, pp. 101-134, 2006, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 07/78

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Nov 2007

Accepted Paper Series

David Rolph

The University of Sydney Law School

Downloads 931

36.

Internet Defamation, Freedom of Expression, and the Lessons of Private International Law for the United States

European Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. 14, 2012, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-03

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Laura E. Little

Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law

Downloads 876

37.

The Concept of a Right to Privacy

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Jul 2011

Working Paper Series

Eoin Carolan

University College Dublin (UCD) - School of Law

Downloads 847

38.

Defamation: Comparative Law and Practice

Andrew T. Kenyon, DEFAMATION: COMPARATIVE LAW AND PRACTICE, UCL Press, 2006, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 154

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Aug 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Andrew T. Kenyon

University of Melbourne Law School

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39.

The Empirical Effects of Tort Reform

Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-26

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Apr 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Theodore Eisenberg

Cornell University, Law School (Deceased)

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40.

Will Tort Reform Bend the Cost Curve? Evidence from Texas

as published in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 9, pp. 173-216 (2012), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-17, University of Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE10-013, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 188

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Myungho Paik, Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman and Charles Silver

Hanyang University - College of Policy Science, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Georgetown University and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 819

41.

The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Medical Malpractice Litigation

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Apr 2012

Working Paper Series

Alexander C. Davis

Independent

Downloads 818

42.

Defamation by Social Media

Precedent, Vol. 117, pp. 16-21, 2013, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 13/81

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

David Rolph

The University of Sydney Law School

Downloads 811

43.

Moral Heuristics or Moral Competence? Reflections on Sunstein

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 557-558, 2005, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 879827, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 879827

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 31 Jan 2006

Accepted Paper Series

John Mikhail

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 808

44.

Tort Suits Filed by Rape and Sexual Assault Victims in Civil Courts: Lessons for Courts, Classrooms and Constituencies

Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 06-16

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 14 Feb 2006

Working Paper Series

Ellen M. Bublick

University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law

Downloads 800

45.

Economic Loss, Punitive Damages, and the Exxon Valdez Litigation

Georgia Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 May 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Ronen Perry

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Downloads 792

46.

Disparities between Asbestosis and Silicosis Claims Generated By Litigation Screenings and Clinical Studies

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2007, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 192

Number of pages: 111 Posted: 14 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Lester Brickman

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Downloads 790

47.

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, Yale University Press (2007), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper 2017-4, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper 2017-4

Number of pages: 257 Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 786

48.

What is Tort Law for? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 62/2013

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 May 2013

Working Paper Series

John Gardner

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 769

49.

Medical Malpractice Litigation and the Market for Plaintiff-Side Representation: Evidence from Illinois

Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS 14-14, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-31, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 536

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2016

Working Paper Series

David A. Hyman, Mohammad Hossein Rahmati, Bernard S. Black and Charles Silver

Georgetown University, Sharif University of Technology, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 765

50.

The Assessment of Compensatory Damages for Medical Error by the Greek Courts: An Economic Analysis

THE GLOBAL ECONOMICS OF A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT, James A. Brox & Nicholas C. Baltas, eds., pp. 239-251, Athenian Policy Forum & North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Nov 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Spyros Vliamos and Aristides N. Hatzis

University of Athens - Faculty of the Philosophy and History of Science and University of Athens - Department of Philosophy & History of Science

Downloads 745

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