Professional malpractice is currently treated as a tort in the U.S. Court system. However, cases of professional malpractice differ from other torts since they generally occur between parties with a pre-existing relationship. ...

In Chapter 3 we review commonly identified differences between common law and civil law legal traditions. Although it becomes harder to draw a clear line between the two legal traditions, identifying differences can be ...

The economic theory of tort has been dominated by an ex post perspective. Researchers have tended to think about the ways in which accident costs could be allocated among parties to provide each with incentives to undertake ...