What is tort law for?
Here is an abstract of an article published last year in the Vanderbilt Law Review by John C. P. Goldberg of Vanderbilt, and entitled, "What Are We Reforming?: Tort Theory’s Place in Debates over Malpractice Reform": This Essay explains why lawyers, policy-makers and scholars interested in medical malpractice reform and tort reform more generally must attend to tort theory. Theory does not provide answers to policy questions. Rather, it frames and guides analysis. The Essay uses two examples to make its point.
