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Tom Baker - Scholarship

Books

• Insurance Law and Policy: Cases, Materials and Problems and Teachers Manual (Aspen Publishers, 2003; second edition 2008) (adopted at 25 U.S. Law Schools).
• The Medical Malpractice Myth (U. Chicago 2005)
• Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility, (University of Chicago Press 2002) (contributing editor, with Jonathan Simon). Reviewed in: 21 Health Affairs 294 (2002) (William M. Sage, "Insurance and the Moral Plurality"); 28 Law & Social Inquiry 295 (2003) (Brian J. Glenn, "Risk, Insurance and the Changing Nature of Mutual Obligation"); 33 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 602-604 (2003) (Timothy Alborn); 29 Canadian J. of Sociology 469 (2004) (Norma Nielson & Stephanie Bertels); 72 J. Risk & Insurance 182 (2005) (Anne Kleffner, Norma Nielson & Stephanie Bertels).

Book Chapters

• Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary, in Fault Lines: Tort Law and Cultural Practice, David M. Engel and Michael McCann, eds. (Stanford University Press forthcoming).
• Insurance as Tort Regulation: Six Ways that Liability Insurance Shapes Tort Law, in Liability in Tort and Liability Insurance, Gerhard Wagner, ed. (European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law 2006; also in 12 Conn. Ins. L. J. 1 2006).
• Medical Malpractice Insurance Reform: "Enterprise Insurance" and Some Alternatives, in Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System: New Century, Different Issues, William M. Sage and Rogan Kersh, eds. (Cambridge University Press 2006).
• Liability Insurance and the Regulation of Firearms, in Suing the Firearms Industry, T. Lytton, ed. (U. Michigan Press 2005) (with Thomas Farrish)
• Containing the Promise of Insurance: Adverse Selection and Risk Classification, in Risk and Morality (Richard Ericson, ed., U. Toronto Press, 2003).
• Risk, Insurance and the Social Construction of Responsibility, in Embracing Risk (Baker & Simon, eds., U. Chicago Press, 2002).
• Insurance Claims Discrimination, in Insurance Redlining (G. Squires, ed., Urban Institute Press, 1997) [with Karen McElrath].

Journal Articles

• How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Settlements in Securities Class Actions, 157 Penn L. Rev. __ (with Sean Griffith) (forthcoming 2008)
• Liability Insurance, Moral Luck, and Auto Accidents, 9 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 165 (2008).
• Embracing Risk, Sharing Responsibility, 56 Drake L. Rev. 561 (2008).
• Predicting Governance Risk: Evidence from the Directors' & Officers' Liability and Insurance Market, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 487 (2007)
• The Missing Monitor in Corporate Governance: The Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurer, 95 Geo. L. J. 1795 (2007)
• Offer of Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Automobile Insurance Litigation in the East, 59 Vanderbilt L. rev. 155 (2006) (with Albert Yoon).
• Reconsidering the Harvard Medical Practice Study Conclusions about the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims, 33(3) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Fall 2005) (commissioned symposium article).
• Medical Malpractice and the Insurance Underwriting Cycle, 54 DePaul Law Review 393 (2005) (commissioned for Clifford Symposium).
• Meet Your New Insured: Successors' Rights to Insurance Assets in Corporate Transactions, 14 No.5 Coverage 1 (September/October 2004) (with John Buchanan and Mariana Horton).
• Insuring Liability Risks, 29 Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 87 (2004)
• The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law: An Experimental Approach, 89 Iowa Law Review 443 (2004) (with Alon Harel and Tamar Kugler).
• Liability and Insurance After September 11th: Embracing Risk Meets the Precautionary Principle, 27 The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice 349 (2002).
• Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom, 2 Nevada Law Journal 386 (2002).
• Insurance and the Law, 11 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7587 (2002).
• Liability and Insurance After September 11th: Embracing Risk Meets the Precautionary Principle, 27 Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 342 (2002).
• Blood Money, New Money and the Moral Economy of Tort Law in Action, 35 Law & Society Review 275 (2001).
• Insuring Morality, 29 Economy and Society 559 (2000).
• Transforming Punishment into Compensation: In the Shadow of Punitive Damages, 1998 Wisconsin Law Review 101 (1998).
• Reconsidering Insurance for Punitive Damages, 1998 Wisconsin Law Review 211 (1998).
• Liability Insurance Conflicts and Defense Lawyers: From Triangles to Tetrahedrons, 4 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 101 (1998).
• On the Genealogy of Moral Hazard, 75 Texas Law Review 237 (1996).
• Whose Safety Net? Home Insurance and Inequality, 21 Law and Social Inquiry 229 (1996) [with Karen McElrath] (reprinted in National Insurance Law Journal).
• Constructing the Insurance Relationship: Sales Stories, Claims Stories and Insurance Contract Damages, 72 Texas Law Review 1395 (1994) (reprinted in Insurance Law Anthology).
• The Application of Per Occurrence Limits From Successive Policies, 3 Environmental Claims Journal 411 (1991) [with Eva Orlebeke].
• Case Comment, The Establishment Clause Wallace v. Jaffree, 99 Harvard Law Review 183 (1985).

News & Other Articles

• Medical Mistakes, Not Lawsuits are the Problem, Hartford Courant, January 26, 2003.
• The Blood Money Myth, Legal Affairs, September-October 2002.
• Congress Should OK Terrorism-Insurance Bill, Newsday, [with Peter Siegelman] September 17, 2002.
• Privacy of Medical Records Well Worth the Cost, Hartford Courant, February 18, 2001.
• Managed Care Companies Can Benefit From Liability, Hartford Courant, November 12, 1998.

Reviews

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research on Tort Law Topics: A Comment on Helland & Klick and Kritzer, 1 Journal of Tort Law Issue 3, Article 4 (2007).
• Richard Ericson and Aaron Doyle, Uncertain Business: Risk, Insurance and the Limits of Knowledge (U. Toronto 2004), 32 Journal of Law & Society 643 (2005)