Readership: Law professors, law students, economics theorists, social scientists, and philosophers in the areas of ethics and law. The book would also be of interest to legal practitioners, such as judges and attorneys.
Ariel Porat, Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University, and Alex Stein, Professor of Law at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"... an exceptionally lucid, challenging and innovative book about an important legal topic ... succinct and excellently structured text ... Porat and Stein's admirable text is one so timely, well expressed and ambitious in its aim that no scholar working in the field can afford not to read it carefully and address its thesis with determination." - Modern Law Review, March 2003
Introduction 1: Liability Under Uncertainty: Allocating the Risk of Error 2: The Tension Between the Burden of Proof and Tort Law Objectives 3: Res Ipsa Loquitur 4: Risk as Damage 5: Collective Liability 6: Liability Under Uncertainty: Making Evidential Damage Actionable 7: The Evidential Damage Doctrine: Applications and Evaluation
