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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A careful discussion of options for reform rounds out this wake-up call to legal inequities and their consequences.
Written by senior economist Eric Helland and associate professor of economics Alexander Tabarrok, Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial is a hard look at the overwhelming instances of inequality, corruption, and inefficiency plaguing American tort law. Drawing upon data from thousands of American tort cases, Judge and Jury explains in plain terms how the legal system...
Published on December 9, 2006 by Midwest Book Review
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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assumes a lot of knowledge, but interesting conclusions
This book is not written for the general reader, even one with good background knowledge of the issues. Even so, there are some comprehensible take-away points that are surprising, such as the virtue of contingency-based payment to lawyers.
Published 19 months ago by Sandra M. Brown
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A careful discussion of options for reform rounds out this wake-up call to legal inequities and their consequences.,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial (Paperback)
Written by senior economist Eric Helland and associate professor of economics Alexander Tabarrok, Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial is a hard look at the overwhelming instances of inequality, corruption, and inefficiency plaguing American tort law. Drawing upon data from thousands of American tort cases, Judge and Jury explains in plain terms how the legal system really works, warning the reader that the driving factors behind huge awards are rarely law or economics, but rather jury composition and judicial elections. The authors' meticulous empirical research offers surprising findings, from the revelation that high contingent attorney fees actually reduce frivolous litigation, to an observation of extreme disparity in the size of tort awards in different regions of America. A careful discussion of options for reform rounds out this wake-up call to legal inequities and their consequences.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
assumes a lot of knowledge, but interesting conclusions,
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This review is from: Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial (Paperback)
This book is not written for the general reader, even one with good background knowledge of the issues. Even so, there are some comprehensible take-away points that are surprising, such as the virtue of contingency-based payment to lawyers.
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Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial by Eric Helland (Paperback - February 1, 2006)
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