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Does Mass Product Tort Litigation Facilitate Or Hinder Social Legislative Reform? A Comparative Study Of Tobacco Regulation, Jeffrey S. Quinn

Jeffrey S Quinn

This Article, Does Mass Product Tort Litigation Facilitate or Hinder Social Legislative Reform? A Comparative Study of Tobacco Regulation, analyzes the competing arguments for and against the use of tort litigation as a means of creating social reform. The value of current scholarship is limited because authors frequently allow their biases to influence their conclusions. Authors in favor of public health reform argue in favor of using tort litigation to create social reform, while authors in favor of a strict separation of powers approach argue against using tort litigation to create social reform. This Article, however, synthesizes the scholarly debate …