A recent paper by professors Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd of Emory University School of Law provides striking and counterintuitive evidence that tort reforms at the state level contribute to a decrease in accidental deaths. Rubin and Shepherd found that reforms such as capping noneconomic damages, requiring a...

Tort reform may save lives.

As the task of rebuilding the Gulf Coast gets underway, AEI’s scholars are examining the economic, political, legal, environmental, and social implications ofKatrina and its aftermath.

The Supreme Court's 2008-2009 term brought modest progress on civil rights, a personnel change that is unlikely to alter the Court's balance, and massive confusion and backpedaling on "business cases."

How has the national debate over medical-malpractice and medical liability reform been affected by a set of faulty studies?

Instead of sending taxes to Washington and straining them through bureaucracies, just collect the taxes, divide them up, and send the money back in cash grants to all American adults.

State attorneys general have discovered a new target for a coordinated litigation campaign: the pharmaceutical industry.