Learning from Case Studies: Asbestos Litigation Reform and Stalemate?

• Author: Ted Marmor
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02535.x
• Date: 01 March 2012
• Published date: 01 March 2012

306 Public Administration Review • March | April 2012

from asbestos exposure. It is mostly a welcome addi-

tion to the scholarly literature on American politics,

policy, and law, but its limited liabilities are illuminat-

ing as well.

What has Barnes set out to do?  at much he explains

clearly in a short preface. A two-year fellowship in

health policy took him from his post at the University

of Southern California to the University of California,

Jeb Barnes, Dust-Up: Asbestos Litigation and

the Failure of Commonsense Policy Reform

( Washington, DC: Georgetown University

Press, 2011). 152 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN:

9781589017665.

This short, readable case study is about why, in

the mid-2000s, Congress failed to change the

way in which American law deals with harm

Learning from Case Studies: Asbestos Litigation Reform

and Stalemate?

Sonia M. Ospina and Rogan Kersh, Editors

Ted Marmor

Yale University

Ted Marmor is professor emeritus of

public policy and political science at Yale

University. He taught the health policy

and law course at Yale’s Law School for

some years and is an expert witness in

asbestos litigation and other disputes in

health, health care, and other areas. He

is author of The Politics of Medicare

(1973, 2000) and coauthor of America’s

Misunderstood Welfare State

(1992). Marmor’s new book of essays on

politics, health, and health care, with Rudolf

Klein, will be published by Yale University

Press in 2012.

E-mail: theodore.marmor@yale.edu