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The Market In Unmatured Tort Claims: Twenty-Five Years Later, Stephen Marks
The Market In Unmatured Tort Claims: Twenty-Five Years Later, Stephen Marks
Pace Law Review
In an article in 1989 in the Virginia Law Review, Professor Robert Cooter argued for changes in the law that would facilitate the development of a market in unmatured tort claims. An unmatured tort claim is a potential claim that a potential victim has before any injury has occurred. Cooter proposed that potential victims have the right to sell their unmatured tort claims. That is, Cooter proposed that potential victims be allowed to sell their right to sue even before an accident or injury ever occurs. Even twenty-five years later, the proposal remains both bold and imaginative, and yet it …
“Meet Me Halfway”: Arm Wrestling And The Law, Thomas M. Byron
“Meet Me Halfway”: Arm Wrestling And The Law, Thomas M. Byron
Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum
Most law review articles are very serious, and with good reason. They discuss important, world-changing matters like the role and magnitude of executive power, the limits of Constitutional rights, the boundaries of international law, and the vagaries of civil procedure. This Article has no such world-changing or reverent pretentions; it instead takes a light-hearted view of a fairly marginal legal topic: arm wrestling. To provide a spine for the discussion, the Article leans heavily on the 1980s movie Over the Top – a movie about arm wrestling, trucking, and child custody - to provide examples of arm wrestling content with …