Professor Sugarman's contribution to public health scholarship

I first met Steve Sugarman at an annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), probably in the early 1990s. As a teacher of torts, among other things, I had of course read some of his often seminal, always bracing torts scholarship-especially his iconoclastic,...

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Published in:California law review 2021-04, Vol.109 (2), p.381-391
Main Author: Schuck, Peter H
Format: Article
Language:English
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Alcohol
Annual meetings
Law and legislation
Law teachers
Physiological aspects
Physiological effect
Public health
Public health law
Public health laws
Public policy
Scholarships & fellowships
Study and teaching
Tobacco
Torts
Work environment
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Summary:I first met Steve Sugarman at an annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), probably in the early 1990s. As a teacher of torts, among other things, I had of course read some of his often seminal, always bracing torts scholarship-especially his iconoclastic, pathbreaking book 'Doing Away with Personal Injury Law' (1989). There, he went far beyond existing no-fault thinking and other incremental tort system reform proposals to urge a far greater reliance on regulatory and entitlement programs, which he would expand and refine. This theme-greater reliance on government entitlements-has been a constant in the immense Sugarman oeuvre. Sure enough, at the APPAM session where we met as joint panelists, Sugarman was at it again-with a paper explaining how workers could be better protected through a plan for regulatory entitlements, some contributory, which would maximize workers' benefits, flexibility, and protection against workplace interruptions. Attention to justice in the workplace has been another significant motif in Sugarman's work, 2 albeit not one that I explore here.
ISSN:0008-1221
1942-6542
DOI:10.15779/Z38R20RX3T