Malpractice Myths

Admittedly, I’m partial toward Tom Baker, who led a great seminar I attended at the Law & Society Association grad student workshop, but for reasons Kevin Drum cites I’m very excited to read his new book. Note, too, the solution–the point if these studies is not generally that the tort system is a perfect of even a very good way to deal with the underlying problems, but that the perpetuation of myths by people who have a financial interest in demonizing trial lawyers prevent us from considering alternatives.