Perspectives on causation / edited by Richard Goldberg.
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Oxford ; Portland, OR :
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Perspective I: the Law.
- 1. Causation / Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann
- 2. Risky business : causation in asbestos cancer cases (and beyond?) / Joseph Sanders
- 3. Developing causal doctrine / Martin Hogg
- 4. Causation, politics and law : the English - and Scottish - asbestos saga / Jonathan Morgan
- 5. Inferring cause in fact and the search for legal 'truth' / Russell Brown
- 6. Causation in French law : pragmatism and policy / Duncan Fairgrieve and Florence G'sell-Macrez-- Perspective II: Scientific evidence.
- 7. The role of scientific and statistical evidence in assessing causality / A Phillip Dawid
- 8. Using scientific evidence to resolve causation problems in product liability : UK, US and French experiences / Richard Goldberg
- 9. Biostatistics and causation in medicinal product liability suits / Peter Feldschreiber, Leigh-Ann Mulcahy and Simon Day
- 10. Proving causation : probability versus belief / Richard W Wright
- 11. Liability for future harm / Ariel Porat and Alex Stein
- 12. Scientific and medical evidence in causation decisions : the Australian experience / Ian Freckelton
- 13. The challenge of developing science for the law of torts / Carl F Cranor
- Perspective III: Legal theory.
- 14. The NESS account of natural causation : a response to criticisms / Richard W Wright
- 15. NESS for beginners / Chris Miller
- 16. The MMTS analysis of causation / Horacio Spector
- 17. Causing the behaviour of others and other causal mixtures / Roderick Bagshaw
- 18. Law's approach to harm in the context of scientific uncertainty : observations from the perspectives of precaution and indeterminate causation / John Paterson.
