Background
Weiler, Paul Cronin was born on January 28, 1939 in Portuguese Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Son of G. Bernard and Marcella (Cronin) Weiler.
( The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This...)
The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, Paul Weiler explains, because of two characteristics intrinsic to all competitive sports. First, sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided. Second, the winning athletes and teams usually take the "lion's share" of both fan attention and spending. So interest in second-rate teams and in second-rate leagues rapidly wanes, leaving one dominant league with monopoly power. The ideal of evenly balanced sporting contests is continually challenged by economic, social, and technological forces. Consequently, Weiler argues, the law is essential to level the playing field for players, owners, and ultimately fans and taxpayers. For example, he shows why players' use of performance-enhancing drugs, even legal ones, should be treated as a more serious offense than, say, use of cocaine. He also explains why proposals to break up dominant leagues and create new ones will not work, and thus why both union representation of players and legal protection for fans--and taxpayers--are necessary. Using well-known incidents--and supplying little-known facts--Weiler analyzes a wide array of moral and economic issues that arise in all competitive sports. He tells us, for example, how Commissioner Bud Selig should respond to Pete Rose's quest for admission to the Hall of Fame; what kind of settlement will allow baseball players and owners to avoid a replay of their past labor battles; and how our political leaders should address the recent wave of taxpayer-built stadiums.
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(Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reason...)
Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reasoning on the key points at issue make covering the material feasible in a one-term course. And to help readers appreciate the significance of the court decisions, over half the book consists of text that describes the evolution and current state of both the entertainment industry and the relevant legal doctrines. Provides lively accounts of how home video transformed the film industry when a last-minute switch in votes on the Supreme Court made copying TV shows for private consumption a legal "fair use," and how Hollywood unions solved the problem of artistic credits but were unable to counter the attack on the Hollywood Ten.
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(Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic...)
Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic changes that have profoundly altered the legal framework of the employment relationship. He not only discusses a wide range of issues, from wrongful dismissal to mandatory drug testing and pay equity, but he also develops a blueprint for the reconstruction of the law of the workplace, especially designed to give American workers more effective representation.
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(The fourth edition of this popular casebook reflects many...)
The fourth edition of this popular casebook reflects many new developments in the rapidly changing entertainment industry, both from a legal and practical perspective. More than half of the book consists of an updated textual discussion of the evolution and current state of the entertainment industry, along with key cases for discussion and illustration of central legal themes. The new edition includes recent cases, such as the Supreme Court's decision in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, with regard to fleeting expletives on broadcast television, as well as important circuit court decisions on copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and defamation issues. Other new developments include recent litigation regarding First Amendment protections for video games (now before the Supreme Court), copyright protection for material streamed or otherwise made available on the Internet, the FCC's new "net neutrality" policy, and the most recent Writers Guild strike.
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( Medical malpractice has been at the center of recurrin...)
Medical malpractice has been at the center of recurring tort crises for the last quarter-century. In 1960, expenditures on medical liability insurance in the United States amounted to about $60 million. In 1988, the figure topped $7 billion. Physicians have responded not simply with expensive methods of "defensive medicine" but also with successful pressure upon state legislatures to cut back on the tort rights of seriously injured patients. Various reforms have been proposed to deal with the successive crises, but so far none have proved to be effective and fair. In this landmark book, Paul Weiler argues for a two-part approach to the medical malpractice crisis. First, he proposes a thorough revision of the current tort liability regime, which would concentrate available resources on meeting actual financial losses of seriously injured victims. It would also shift the focus of tort liability from the individual doctor to the hospital or other health care organization. This would elicit more effective quality assurance programs from the institutions that are in the best position to reduce our current unacceptable rate of physician-induced injuries. But in states such as New York, Florida, and Illinois, where the current situation seems to have gone beyond the help of even drastic tort reform, the preferred solution is a no-fault system. Weiler shows how such a system would provide more equitable compensation, more effective prevention, and more economical administration than any practical alternative.
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("A Measure of Malpractice" tells the story and presents t...)
"A Measure of Malpractice" tells the story and presents the results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study, the largest and most comprehensive investigation ever undertaken of the performance of the medical malpractice system. The Harvard study was commissioned by the government of New York in 1968, in the midst of a malpractice crisis that had driven insurance premiums for surgeons and obstetricians in New York City to nearly $200,000 a year. The Harvard-based team of doctors, lawyers, economists, and statisticians set out to investigate what was actually happening to patients in hospitals and to doctors in courtrooms, launching a far more informed debate about the future of medical liability in the 1990s. Careful analysis of the medical records of a representative sample of 30,000 patients hospitalized in 1984 showed that approximately 1 in 25 patients suffered a disabling medical injury, one-quarter of these as a result of the negligence of a doctor or other provider. After assembling all the malpractice claims filed in New York State since 1975, the authors found that just one in eight patients who had been victims of negligence actually filed a malpractice claim, and more than two-thirds of these claims were filed by the wrong patients. The study team then interviewed injured patients in the sample to discover the actual financial loss they had experienced: the key finding was that for roughly the same dollar amount now being spent on a tort system that compensates only a handful of victims, it would be possible to fund comprehensive disability insurance for all patients significantly disabled by a medical accident. The authors, who came to the project from very different perspectives about the present malpractice system, are now in agreement about the value of a new model of medical liability. Rather than merely tinker with the current system - which fixes primary legal responsibility on individual doctors who can be proved medically negligent - legislatures should encourage health care organizations to take responsibility for the financial losses experienced by all patients injured in their care.
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(Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reason...)
Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reasoning on the key points at issue make covering the material feasible in a one-term course. And to help readers appreciate the significance of the court decisions, over half the book consists of text that describes the evolution and current state of both the entertainment industry and the relevant legal doctrines. Provides lively accounts of how home video transformed the film industry when a last-minute switch in votes on the Supreme Court made copying TV shows for private consumption a legal "fair use," and how Hollywood unions solved the problem of artistic credits but were unable to counter the attack on the Hollywood Ten.
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Weiler, Paul Cronin was born on January 28, 1939 in Portuguese Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Son of G. Bernard and Marcella (Cronin) Weiler.
Bachelor with honors, University Toronto, 1960. Master of Arts with honors, University Toronto, 1961. Bachelor of Laws, Osgoode Hall Law School, 1964.
Master of Laws, Harvard Law School, 1965. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Victoria, 1981. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Toronto, 2000.
Professor law Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, 1965-1972. Chairman Labour Relations Board, Vancouver, 1973-1978. Mackenzie King visiting professor Canada studies Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978-1980, professor law, since 1981, Henry J. Friendly professor law, since 1993.
Chief counsel United States Commission Future of Worker-Management Relations. Principal legal investigator Harvard University Medical Practice Study Group. Impartial umpire American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Chief reporter American Law Institute Tort Reform Project. Consultant to United States Commission on Comprehensive Health Care (Pepper Commission). Special counsel Government Ontario Review of Workers' Compensation, 1980-1988.
Member public review board United Auto Workers, 1982-2006, chief counsel President' commission Future Worker-Management Relations, 1993-1994. Panelist, United States/Canada Free Trade Agreement Softwood Lumber Arbitration, 1992-1993.
("A Measure of Malpractice" tells the story and presents t...)
(The fourth edition of this popular casebook reflects many...)
(Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic...)
(Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reason...)
(Thoughtfully edited cases to highlight the court's reason...)
( Medical malpractice has been at the center of recurrin...)
( The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This...)
(This supplement updates the main casebook.)
Member National Academy Arbitrators, National Academy Social Insurance, National Academy Science, Institute Medicine. Club: Cambridge Tennis (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Married Florrie Darwin, 1988. Children: Virginia, John, Kathryn, Charles.