poster 2 of 1998 full-text online casebook

This presentation is sponsored by SRA’s Risk Science and Law Specialty Group. One of the purposes of the Specialty Group is to bridge the gap between technically oriented risk analysts and the legal system, and one of our projects is to develop a sourcebook, with contributions from as many SRA members as possible, of important legal materials – including cases and commentary – for risk analysts. These posters begin the process of assembling the sourcebook by presenting a roadmap of the ways that courts use and evaluate risk analysis.

The roadmap is a work in progress, and the present version lays out, so to speak, only the major routes and the major cities and landmarks. We hope that, even in this preliminary form, the roadmap will help non-lawyers to understand the context for risk analysis in the courts and the legal issues that the use of risk analysis raises. As a work in progress, however, we expect that future versions will add details to make the roadmap more and more useful to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.

SECTION	POSTER

TITLE PAGE	1

TABLE OF CONTENTS	2

ELEMENTS OF A CIVIL LAWSUIT
ANATOMY OF A CIVIL CASE	3,4
WRONGFUL ACT	5
PROOF OF CAUSATION	6, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
APPELLATE REVIEW	9
TYPES OF HARM	10, 11a, 11b, 11c
PARTICIPANT ATTITUDES	12, 12a, 12b

JUDICIAL REVIEW OF REGULATORY ACTION
ANATOMY OF JUDICIAL REVIEW	13a, 13b
STANDARDS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW	14a, 14b
DEFERENCE TO AGENCY JUDGMENT	15
SITE-SPECIFIC DECISIONS	16a, 16b
GENERALLY APPLICABLE REGULATIONS	17
COMPARING ALTERNATIVES	18
PROOF IN CRIMINAL CASES	19

OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES	20
JAPAN
CANADA

SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS	21a, 21b
FREQUENT MISUNDERSTANDINGS, MISUSES, AND OTHER MISHAPS

CONTRIBUTORS	22