Statistical approaches to assessing charges of environmental racism and classism against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Adam Karp -- Bars to the payment of prejudgment interest : the supreme court and the federal employers' liability act / David E. Ault, Gilbert L. Rutman -- Of distributive justice and economic efficiency : an integrated theory of the common law / Brian N. Wasankari, Richard O. Zerbe, Steven Vinyard -- The duration of personal injury litigation / Stephen J. Spurr -- The efficiency of medical malpractice law : A new appraisal / Reed Neil Olsen -- The effects of hospital competition on nonprofit and for-profit hospital medicaid share / Sheri L. Eisert -- Statutes of limitations for accident cases : theory and evidence / Matthew Baker, Thomas J. Miceli -- Educating Alice : lessons from the coase theorem / Steven G. Medema, Richard O. Zerbe.

Research in Law and Economics is a highly respected source of proactive, original perspectives on law and economics. For the researcher, this latest volume offers a diverse set of papers, each one a constructive contribution. The papers address: how the Supreme Court can clarify and rationalize the payment of pre-judgement interest; what is meant or should be meant by economic efficiency; the length of various statutes of limitations for accident cases; implications of the court congestion hypothesis of Posner and Priest; the efficiency of medical malpractice insurance; and the effects of hospital competition on Medicaid share.