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Apologies In The Healthcare System: From Clinical Medicine To Public Health, Michal Alberstein, Nadav Davidovitch Jul 2011

Apologies In The Healthcare System: From Clinical Medicine To Public Health, Michal Alberstein, Nadav Davidovitch

Law and Contemporary Problems

Alberstein and Davidovitch explore the role of apologies in healthcare systems from a broader perspective. The significance of apology in terms of social solidarity is addressed and the ways in which each apology situation entails a clash between cultural identities are demonstrated. The debate on apology is explored by presenting a public health perspective of apologies following collective traumatic events such as the application of sterilization laws or flawed human experimentations in various settings.


Journal Staff Jul 2011

Journal Staff

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Scaling Up Deliberative Democracy As Dispute Resolution In Healthcare Reform: A Work In Progress , Carrie Menkel-Meadow Jul 2011

Scaling Up Deliberative Democracy As Dispute Resolution In Healthcare Reform: A Work In Progress , Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Is There An App For That? Electronic Health Records (Ehrs) And A New Environment Of Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Ethan Katsh, Norman Sondheimer, Prashila Dullabh, Samuel Stromberg Jul 2011

Is There An App For That? Electronic Health Records (Ehrs) And A New Environment Of Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Ethan Katsh, Norman Sondheimer, Prashila Dullabh, Samuel Stromberg

Law and Contemporary Problems

Katsh discusses the new problems that are a consequence of a new technological environment in healthcare, one that has an array of elements that makes the emergence of disputes likely. Novel uses of technology have already addressed both the problem and its source in other contexts, such as e-commerce, where large numbers of transactions have generated large numbers of disputes. If technology-supported healthcare is to improve the field of medicine, a similar effort at dispute prevention and resolution will be necessary.


Rationalizing Noneconomic Damages: A Health-Utilities Approach, David M. Studdert, Allen Kachalia, Joshua A. Salomon, Michelle M. Mello Jul 2011

Rationalizing Noneconomic Damages: A Health-Utilities Approach, David M. Studdert, Allen Kachalia, Joshua A. Salomon, Michelle M. Mello

Law and Contemporary Problems

Studdert et al examine why making compensation of noneconomic damages in personal-injury litigation more rational and predictable is socially valuable. Noneconomic-damages schedules as an alternative to caps are discussed, several potential approaches to construction of schedules are reviewed, and the use of a health-utilities approach as the most promising model is argued. An empirical analysis that combines health-utilities data created in a previous study with original empirical work is used to demonstrate how key steps in construction of a health-utilities-based schedule for noneconomic damages might proceed.


Most Claims Settle: Implications For Alternative Dispute Resolution From A Profile Of Medical-Malpractice Claims In Florida , Mirya Holman, Neil Vidmar, Paul Lee Jul 2011

Most Claims Settle: Implications For Alternative Dispute Resolution From A Profile Of Medical-Malpractice Claims In Florida , Mirya Holman, Neil Vidmar, Paul Lee

Law and Contemporary Problems

Holman et al draw attention to the frequent and complicated evidentiary problems in medical malpractice claims and the procedural mechanisms provided by statutes, court rules, and case law that are already in place to facilitate claim resolution. While proposed alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures might well provide better resolutions to medical malpractice claims, they must take into consideration both the unique characteristics of medical malpractice disputes and existing mechanisms for resolving these disputes. The profile of the settlements of Florida medical-malpractice claims provides a structure with which any proposals for ADR must contend.


Medical Malpractice Mediation: Benefits Gained, Opportunities Lost , Carol B. Liebman Jul 2011

Medical Malpractice Mediation: Benefits Gained, Opportunities Lost , Carol B. Liebman

Law and Contemporary Problems

Liebman reviews two recent studies evaluating the use of interest-based mediation to resolve medical malpractice claims. The first studied cases brought against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and the second, Mediating Suits against Hospitals, studied cases brought against private New York City hospitals. How non-participation of physicians in mediations diminishes opportunities to achieve noneconomic goals that plaintiffs desire is analyzed.


A “Principled Resolution”: The Fulcrum For Bioethics Mediation, Nancy Neveloff Dubler Jul 2011

A “Principled Resolution”: The Fulcrum For Bioethics Mediation, Nancy Neveloff Dubler

Law and Contemporary Problems

The concept of a "principled resolution" is the foundation for bioethics mediation. Dubler presents the core bioethical principles that support the creation of principled resolutions as fulcrums for resolving disagreements in the healthcare setting. These disputes may arise among medical providers, between medical providers and patients, or among members of a patient's family and can be managed or resolved by bioethics mediation using the conceptual tool of a principled resolution.


Experimenting With Alternative Dispute Resolution As A Means For Peaceful Resolution Of Interest Labor Disputes In Public Healthcare—A Case Study , Mordehai (Moti) Mironi Jul 2011

Experimenting With Alternative Dispute Resolution As A Means For Peaceful Resolution Of Interest Labor Disputes In Public Healthcare—A Case Study , Mordehai (Moti) Mironi

Law and Contemporary Problems

Mironi examines the dispute between the Israel Medical Association and the Israeli government. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with the arbitrators and the parties' representatives and counsels, as well as upon the extensive litigation and transcripts of the arbitration proceedings and award, the process-oriented aspects of the arbitration are emphasized. The disputes between the IMA and the government have never been only about money, but also have been about voice, the future status of public healthcare, and the doctors' professional quality of life.


Escaping The Shadow Of Malpractice Law, Orna Rabinovich-Einy Jul 2011

Escaping The Shadow Of Malpractice Law, Orna Rabinovich-Einy

Law and Contemporary Problems

Abinovich-Einy addresses several constituencies operating at the meeting point of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), communication theory, healthcare policy, and medical-malpractice doctrine. From an ADR perspective, the need for, and barriers to, addressing non-litigable disputes, for which the "alternative" route is the only one, is explored. It is shown that ADR mechanisms may not take root when introduced into an environment that is resistant to collaborative and open discourse without additional incentives and measures being adopted.


Journal Staff Apr 2011

Journal Staff

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Foreword, Avishalom Tor Apr 2011

Foreword, Avishalom Tor

Law and Contemporary Problems

The collection of articles in this Special Issue is based on an international conference on Advances in the Behavioral Analysis of Law: Markets, Institutions, and Contracts that took place on December 8, 2009 at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law in Israel. The conference addressed cuttingedge legal issues at the intersection of law, economics, and psychology from a diverse set of viewpoints, bringing together scholars engaged in both theoretical and experimental behavioral analyses of law.


Notions Of Fairness And Contingent Fees , Eyal Zamir, Ilana Ritov Apr 2011

Notions Of Fairness And Contingent Fees , Eyal Zamir, Ilana Ritov

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Stealing Sunshine, Ronen Perry, Dana Weimann-Saks Apr 2011

Stealing Sunshine, Ronen Perry, Dana Weimann-Saks

Law and Contemporary Problems

This study is the first to examine the efficacy of this tactic, both theoretically and empirically, contributing to the growing literature on the impact of various trial-advocacy techniques on decision-makers' perceptions and trial outcomes. Given the primacy of the work, the authors draw on existing literature on a related courtroom technique commonly known as "stealing thunder," which is -- in a sense -- the mirror image of the tactic under scrutiny.


Why Didn’T Subprime Investors Demand A (Much Larger) Lemons Premium?, Claire A. Hill Apr 2011

Why Didn’T Subprime Investors Demand A (Much Larger) Lemons Premium?, Claire A. Hill

Law and Contemporary Problems

The subprime crisis would never have occurred had investors not been such enthusiastic consumers of subprime securities. The investors now say, somewhat self-servingly (but probably correctly), that they did not understand the securities -- securities for which they were willing to pay very high prices. Investors' willingness to purchase these securities on terms that were favorable to the sellers, and unfavorable to them, presents a considerable puzzle. Investors do not want to miss out on the next big thing.


Open Doors, Trap Doors, And The Law, Shmuel I. Becher, Tal Z. Zarsky Apr 2011

Open Doors, Trap Doors, And The Law, Shmuel I. Becher, Tal Z. Zarsky

Law and Contemporary Problems

Accordingly, the term "open door" will be used to refer to situations in which an individual can exercise, ex post, a right to rescind or withdraw from (and thus reverse) an ex ante commitment or decision. More specifically, within the realm of contract theory, this article focuses on implications for contract formation interpretation and the design of contractual default rules.


Harmful Freedom Of Choice: Lessons From The Cellphone Market , Adi Ayal Apr 2011

Harmful Freedom Of Choice: Lessons From The Cellphone Market , Adi Ayal

Law and Contemporary Problems

This article focuses on the relationship between provider and customer, specifically on the complexity of available contracts in the cellphone market and the ways this complexity might be harmful to consumers. This article aims to elucidate the issues, fleshing them out both as a general phenomenon and as a specific implementation in the cellphone context. The aim is not to provide ultimate solutions, but to show the directions these solutions might take and the difficulties involved.


Behind The Veil Of Legal Uncertainty , Yuval Feldman, Shahar Lifshitz Apr 2011

Behind The Veil Of Legal Uncertainty , Yuval Feldman, Shahar Lifshitz

Law and Contemporary Problems

This article challenges the conventional view and proclaims the advantages of legal uncertainty. This article recognized some of the drawbacks may arise due to uncertainty and hence illustrated several refinements and limitations regarding the use of a "veil of uncertainty" mechanism in order to improve its potential benefits for lawmakers.


Law For The Common Man: An Individual-Level Theory Of Values, Expanded Rationality, And The Law , Amir N. Licht Apr 2011

Law For The Common Man: An Individual-Level Theory Of Values, Expanded Rationality, And The Law , Amir N. Licht

Law and Contemporary Problems

This article makes an admittedly bold attempt at outlining an analytical framework for addressing this question. Instead of looking at the legal implications of bounded rationality -- an exercise highly worthy in its own right -- this article advances a theory of expanded rationality. This theory retains the element of rationality in that people respond to incentives in an attempt to attain utility, and it does not question the observation that decision-making is often bounded due to various factors.


Indemnification And Advancement Through An Agency Lens, Deborah A. Demott Jan 2011

Indemnification And Advancement Through An Agency Lens, Deborah A. Demott

Law and Contemporary Problems

DeMott discusses the doctrines that define entitlements to indemnification. In the corporate context, indemnification is better grounded, as in the Model Business Corporation Act (MBCA), in the necessity of furnishing corporate directors with appropriate protection against personal risk. To be sure, as the MBCA's official comments implicitly acknowledge, the position of officers, especially senior executive officers, does not fit neatly and exclusively into either an "agent" or a "non-agent" category for indemnification purposes.


General Corporation Laws: History And Economics , David Mcbride Jan 2011

General Corporation Laws: History And Economics , David Mcbride

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


The Model Business Corporation Act At Sixty: Shareholders And Their Influence, Lisa M. Fairfax Jan 2011

The Model Business Corporation Act At Sixty: Shareholders And Their Influence, Lisa M. Fairfax

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Of The Model Business Corporation Act To Other Entity Laws, William H. Clark Jr. Jan 2011

The Relationship Of The Model Business Corporation Act To Other Entity Laws, William H. Clark Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


The Model Business Corporation Act Financial Provisions: A Historical Snapshot , Larry P. Scriggins Jan 2011

The Model Business Corporation Act Financial Provisions: A Historical Snapshot , Larry P. Scriggins

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Foreword, James D. Cox, Herbert S. Wander Jan 2011

Foreword, James D. Cox, Herbert S. Wander

Law and Contemporary Problems

A toast to the Model Business Corporation Act (MBCA), and especially its forefathers, on its 60th Birthday! Now at age 60, the MBCA is still vibrant, meaningful, and it forms the bedrock for the health of the United States corporate economy.


The Model Business Corporation Act And Corporate Governance: An Enabling Statute Moves Toward Normative Standards, John F. Olson, Aaron K. Briggs Jan 2011

The Model Business Corporation Act And Corporate Governance: An Enabling Statute Moves Toward Normative Standards, John F. Olson, Aaron K. Briggs

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Rules, Standards, And The Model Business Corporation Act, Michael P. Dooley Jan 2011

Rules, Standards, And The Model Business Corporation Act, Michael P. Dooley

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


2.02(B)(4) Or Not 2.02(B)(4): That Is The Question, Bryn R. Vaaler Jan 2011

2.02(B)(4) Or Not 2.02(B)(4): That Is The Question, Bryn R. Vaaler

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


On Corporate Codification: A Historical Peek At The Model Business Corporation Act And The American Law Institute Principles Through The Delaware Lens, E. Norman Veasey Jan 2011

On Corporate Codification: A Historical Peek At The Model Business Corporation Act And The American Law Institute Principles Through The Delaware Lens, E. Norman Veasey

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Delaware Corporate Law And The Model Business Corporation Act: A Study In Symbiosis , Jeffrey M. Gorris, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Leo E. Strine Jr. Jan 2011

Delaware Corporate Law And The Model Business Corporation Act: A Study In Symbiosis , Jeffrey M. Gorris, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Leo E. Strine Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.