Table of Contents:
  • Overview / W. Kip Viscusi
  • Tobacco : regulation and taxation through litigation / W. Kip Viscusi ; comment by John E. Calfee
  • Litigation as regulation : firearms / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig ; comment by Jim Leitzel
  • Litigating lead-based paint hazards / Randall Lutter and Elizabeth Mader ; comment by Thomas J. Kniesner
  • Breast implants : regulation, litigation, and science / Joni Hersch ; comment by Peter Schuck
  • Malpractice pressure, managed care, and physician behavior / Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan ; comment by Patricia Danzon
  • Insurance effects of regulation by litigation / Kenneth S. Abraham ; comment by J. David Cummins
  • Regulatory advantage of class action / David Rosenberg ; comment by James Wootton
  • Implications for legal reform / Richard A. Epstein ; comment by Gary T. Schwartz.