Top 10 Recent Torts & Products Liability SSRN Downloads

Among papers posted in the last 60 days, the top 10 papers for the SSRN Torts & Products Liability e-Journal are:

1.  Estimating the Effect of Damages Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas
David A. Hyman , Bernard S. Black , Charles Silver and William M. Sage
University of Illinois – College of Law , University of Texas at Austin – School of Law , University of Texas at Austin – School of Law and University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Date Posted: February 26, 2009
264 downloads

2.  The Unfinished Daubert Revolution
David E. Bernstein
George Mason University – School of Law
Date Posted: March 7, 2009
198 downloads

3.  Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform
Pamela Samuelson and Tara Wheatland
UC Berkeley School of Law and University of California, Berkeley – School of Law
Date Posted: April 9, 2009
189 downloads

 4.  Philosophical Issues in Tort Law
John Oberdiek
Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
Date Posted: March 18, 2009
168 downloads

5.  The Failure of Economics in Tort Law: The Puzzle of Negligence
Shawn J. Bayern
Duke University – School of Law
Date Posted: February 26, 2009
93 downloads

6.  Calabresi, Posner, and Some Common Areas of Confusion: The Value of Life in Law and Economics
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
King’s College London School of Law
Date Posted: February 23, 2009
80 downloads

7.  Graduated Consent Theory, Explained and Applied
Tom W. Bell
Chapman University – School of Law
Date Posted: March 12, 2009
79 downloads

8.  Allowing Patients to Waive the Right to Sue for Medical Malpractice: A Response to Thaler and Sunstein
Tom Baker and Timothy D. Lytton
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Albany Law School
Date Posted: February 26, 2009
75 downloads

9.  Litigating Groups
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Florida State University – College of Law
Date Posted: March 14, 2009
70 downloads

10.  Fessing Up to Facebook: Recent Trends in the Use of Social Network Websites for Insurance Litigation
Pamela D. Pengelley
Cozen O’Connor
Date Posted: March 10, 2009
64 downloads

10.  Rights, Remedies, and Causes of Action
Stephen A. Smith
McGill University – Faculty of Law
Date Posted: February 19, 2009
64 downloads

–CJR