Ronen Avraham (Texas) recently alerted me to an update of one of the more helpful resources around for those who study tort reform. Specifically, Database of State Tort Law Reforms (DSTLR 4th) seeks to create "one 'canonized' dataset will increase our understanding of tort reform’s impacts on our lives." A fuller (though excerpted) description follows.
"This manuscript of the DSTLR (4th) updates the DSTLR (3rd) and contains the most detailed, complete and comprehensive legal dataset of the most prevalent tort reforms in the United States between 1980 and 2010.... The dataset records state laws in all fifty states and the District of Columbia over the last several decades. For each reform we record the effective date, a short description of the reform, whether or not the jury is allowed to know about the reform, whether the reform was upheld or struck down by the states’ courts, as well as whether it was amended by the state legislator."
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