BY ERICA W. RUTNER & LARA BUESO BACH, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 999 (2015). Introduction: Cases involving medical causation often turn on the plaintiff’s ability to offer admissible expert testimony. In fact, in products liability cases proceeding in the Eleventh Circuit, plaintiffs are required to have admissible expert testimony establishing both general causation—that the agent in question […]
BY CARL E. FISHER, DAVID L. FAIGMAN & PAUL S. APPELBAUM, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 631 (2015). Introduction: In the conventional view, scientific fields advance through the concerted efforts of researchers dedicated to studying phenomena to better describe, predict, and not infrequently, control them. As basic research data accumulate, they often are applied to specific instances of the phenomena being studied. Meteorologists, […]
BY RABIA BELT, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 755 (2015). Introduction: When Robert Crenshaw and his wife were on their honeymoon in Canada in 1982, Robert got into a fight and was deported back to the United States. He found a motel room just across the border in Blaine, Washington and waited for his wife. Upon her arrival two […]
BY WILLIAM K.S. WANG, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 811 (2015). Introduction: Professor John P. Anderson’s article, What’s the Harm in Issuer-Licensed Insider Trading?, argues that my “Law of Conservation of Securities” has no moral relevance to the question whether to allow such trading. Although the Law of Conservation of Securities does not resolve the issue, the “law” does […]
BY LEO KATZ, 69 U. Miami L. Rev. 827 (2015). Introduction: Professor Anderson argues that so long as insider trading is consented to by all market participants, it is hard to find a strong moral objection to it. I agree that explaining why we prohibit consensual transactions is always a tall order. Nonetheless, the fact remains that the law […]
