Foundations of Tort Law

This collection of readings introduces the student to the intellectual and economic backgrounds to contemporary tort law.

The readings are introduced by Levmore and are accompanied by extensive notes and questions.

Contributors: Ronald H. Coase, Harold Demsetz, Mark Kelman, Richard Posner, George P.

Fletcher, Gary Schwartz, John E. Calfee, Richard Craswell, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Jules L.

Coleman, William Bishop, Martha Chamallas, Linda K. Kerber, Mark Grady, John J. Donohue, Marc Shukaitis, Alan O. Sykes, Lawrence M. Friedman, Jack Ladinsky, Leslie Bender, Ernest Weinrib, Saul Levmore, Guido Calabresi, Douglas Melamed, Robert C.

Ellickson, Richard Epstein, George L. Priest, Michael Trebilcock, Alan Schwartz, Robert L.

Rabin, Daniel Farber, Philip Frickey