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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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Allowing Patients to Waive the Right to Sue for Malpractice: A Response to Thaler and Sunstein 104 Nw. U. L. REV. (forthcoming 2009) (with Timothy Lytton).
Date Posted: March 26, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Health Sciences, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Health Law and Policy, Insurance Law, Torts

Blood Money, New Money and the Moral Economy of Tort Law in Action, 35 L. & SOC’Y REV. 275 (2001).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law, the Profession, and the Public Interest
Keywords: Dispute Resolution, Insurance Law, Legal Profession, Torts

EMBRACING RISK: THE CHANGING CULTURE OF INSURANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY (contributing editor, with Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago Press 2002).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Insurance Law, Risk

Government as Risk Manager, in PRINCIPLES OF REGULATION, John Cisternino & David Moss, eds. (forthcoming 2009) (with David Moss).
Date Posted: March 26, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Government and Legislation
Keywords: Regulated Industries

How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 755 (2009) (with Sean Griffith).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Corporations, Insurance Law, Securities Law

INSURANCE LAW AND POLICY: CASES, MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS (Aspen Publishing 2003; 2d ed. 2008).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Insurance Law, Regulated Industries, Risk

Insurance Against Misinformation in the Securities Market (SSRN: 2007).
Date Posted: June 15, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Information Law, Insurance Law, Securities Law

Insuring Liability Risks, 29 GENEVA PAPERS ON RISK AND INSURANCE 87 (2004).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Insurance Law, Risk

Insuring Morality, 29 ECON. & SOC’Y 559 (2000).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Insurance Law, Moral and Political Philosophy, Risk

Jackpot Justice and the American Tort System: Thinking Beyond Junk Science (with Herbert M. Kritzer and Neil Vidmar) (SSRN: 2008).
Date Posted: June 15, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics, Torts

Liability Insurance Conflicts and Defense Lawyers: From Triangles to Tetrahedrons, 4 CONN. INS. L.J. 101 (1998).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Insurance Law, Torts

Liability Insurance as Tort Regulation: Six Ways that Liability Insurance Shapes Tort Law in Action, 12 CONN. INS. L.J. 1 (2005).
Date Posted: November 11, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Commercial Law, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Insurance Law, Torts

Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary, in FAULT LINES: TORT LAW AND CULTURAL PRACTICE, (David M. Engel and Michael McCann, eds., Stanford Univ. Press 2009).
Date Posted: January 15, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Courts and the Administration of Justice
Keywords: Insurance Law, Torts

Liability Insurance, Moral Luck, and Auto Accidents, 9 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN L. 165 (2008).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Torts

Liability and Insurance After September 11th: Embracing Risk Meets the Precautionary Principle, 27 GENEVA PAPERS ON RISK & INS. 342 (2002).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Insurance Law, Regulated Industries, Risk

Medical Malpractice and the Insurance Underwriting Cycle, 54 DEPAUL L. REV.393 (2005).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Health Sciences
Keywords: Health Law and Policy, Insurance Law, Risk, Torts

Offer of Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Automobile Insurance Litigation in the East, 59 VAND. L. REV. 155 (2006) (with Albert Yoon).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Courts and the Administration of Justice, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution, Insurance Law, Torts

Predicting Corporate Governance Risk: Evidence from the Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance Market, 74 CHI. L. REV. 487 (2007) (with Sean Griffith).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Corporations, Insurance Law, Risk, Securities Law, Social Science and the Law

Real Torts: Using Barry Werth’s Damages in the Law School Classroom, 2 NEV. L. J. 386 (2002).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law, the Profession, and the Public Interest
Keywords: Insurance Law, Legal Education, Torts

Reconsidering Insurance for Punitive Damages, 1998 WIS. L. REV. 211.
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Insurance Law, Risk, Torts

Reconsidering the Harvard Medical Practice Study Conclusions about the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims, 33 J.L. MED. & ETHICS 501 (2005).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Health Sciences
Keywords: Health Law and Policy, Torts

THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE MYTH (University of Chicago Press 2005) (paperback 2007).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Health Sciences
Keywords: Health Economics, Health Law and Policy, Torts

The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers’ Ultimate Losses, 76 J. RISK & INS. 197 (2009) (with Patricia Born and Kip Viscusi)
Date Posted: January 15, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Health Sciences
Keywords: Courts, Health Economics, Health Law and Policy, Insurance Law, Torts

The Missing Monitor in Corporate Governance: The Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurer, 95 GEO. L.J. 1795 (2007) (with Sean Griffith).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Corporations, Insurance Law, Risk, Securities Law

The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law: An Experimental Approach, 89 IOWA L. REV. 443 (2004) (with Alon Harel and Tamar Kugler).
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry, Risk

Transforming Punishment into Compensation: In the Shadow of Punitive Damages, 1998 WIS. L. REV. 101.
Date Posted: July 01, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Tom Baker
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Torts