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The Costs of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis. By Guido Calabresi. [Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1970, 340 pp.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

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Israel Law Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 148 - 156
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1974

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References

1 See Inter-Ministerial Committee Report on Questions of Traffic and Work Accidents (1966) 1 Is.L.R. 636.

2 See (1973) 8 Is.L.R. 296.

3 Englard, , Automobile Accident Compensation System: Principles for a Reform Proposal in Israel (Jerusalem, 1972, in Hebrew).Google Scholar See also review by Procaccia, U. (1973) 8 Is.L.R. 320.Google Scholar

4 For a summary of the systems adopted by the end of 1972 see (1973) 40 Insurance Counsel J. 250. In August 1972 the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws adopted the Uniform Motor Vehicle Accident Reparations Act.

5 For a review of the Canadian schemes see Linden, , “Automobile Insurance—Canadian Style” (1972) 21 Catholic U.R. 369.Google Scholar

6 The two major articles are “Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution in the Law of Torts” (1961) 70 Yale L.J. 499; “The Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs” (1965) 78 Harv. L.R. 713.

7 See Blum, and Kalven, , “The Empty Cabinet of Dr. Calabresi: Auto-Accidents and General Deterrence” (1967) 34 U. Chi. L. R. 239CrossRefGoogle Scholar and the reply of Calabresi, , “Fault, Accidents and the Wonderful World of Blum and Kalven” (1965) 75 Yale L.J. 216.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 See Blum and Kalven, op. cit. in preceding note. Also see the earlier work of these authors: Public Law Perspectives on a Private Law Problem—Auto Compensation Plans (Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1965) also published under the same title in (1964) 31 U. Chi. L. R. 641.

9 See Blum and Kalven, op. cit. supra n. 7, at p. 242.