Regulation through litigation [electronic resource] / W. Kip Viscusi, editor. - Washington, D.C. : AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, c2002. - viii, 369 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Citizen suits (Civil procedure)--United States.
Delegated legislation--United States.
Class actions (Civil procedure)--United States.
Public policy (Law)--United States.


Electronic books.

KF8896.5 / .R44 2002

347.73/53