The Economic Analysis of Tort Law Abstract In the presented thesis I discuss the economic analysis of tort law. The economic analysis of law can be described as the application of economic theory - primarily microeconomics and the basic concepts of welfare economics - to examine the formation, structure, processes, and economic impact of law and legal institutions. The economic analysis of tort law can help understand the impact of tort liability on individuals' behavior, why some areas of human activity are governed by negligence or strict liability, or why, in some cases, the amout of damages is limited. First two chapters describe the economic approach to law as such, they serve as an introduction into this field of study and present the most important methodological approaches. In the first chapter, I also discuss the basic tendencies that have shaped the economic analysis of law throughout its development. Second chapter then discusses some of the fundamental concepts of the economic analysis of law, namely the assumption of rational action, the concept of transaction costs, the efficiency criterion, the importance of the Coase theorem, and the distinction between property rules and liability rules. Following the examination of the concept of economic efficiency, an alternative approach based on the...

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-10-11T16:20:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Feliciano Alcides Dias_.pdf: 3121825 bytes, checksum: b6a701b1ee5e6f064ebd188d595881db (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-11T16:20:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Feliciano Alcides Dias_.pdf: 3121825 bytes, checksum: b6a701b1ee5e6f064ebd188d595881db (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-15 / Nenhuma / As transformações da sociedade hipermoderna e a organização das empresas têm provocado à expansão de novas formas de processos decisórios, através dos meios cooperados de tratamento e resolução de controvérsias que passaram a ser utilizados com maior frequência entre os interessados, além dos serviços jurisdicionais do Estado. Nessa ótica, a arbitragem pode ser considerada um instrumento de desenvolvimento democrático do acesso à justiça, pois ressalta a condição do agente na solução de conflitos em âmbito privado e de natureza patrimonial, tendo em vista que suas bases estão fundadas no princípio da autonomia de vontade das partes. A descrença de grande parte da sociedade em resolver seus conflitos pelo Poder Judiciário brasileiro, revela-se diante da sua ineficiência, morosidade e imprevisibilidade em termos da prestação de serviços aos seus jurisdicionados, que pode trazer reflexos negativos para o desenvolvimento econômico do país. Deste modo, exsurge o problema em examinar se a arbitragem, enquanto instituição econômica mostra-se um mecanismo eficiente, em face dos motivos pelos quais indivíduos e empresas decidem arbitrar seus conflitos com a inclusão de cláusulas arbitrais em seus contratos, com a possível redução dos custos de transação. Assim, a novel legislação sobre o instituto arbitral almeja reforçar a garantia da democracia expressa pela participação das partes na condução do processo, que se encontra consubstanciada pela constitucionalização do direito processual civil brasileiro. Essa situação reforça a interpretação dos fenômenos que se apresentam sob a matriz do método fenomenológico hermenêutico e sobre a abordagem da Análise Econômica do Direito, associada à realização de pesquisa empírica, de natureza exploratória e de campo, as principais Câmaras Arbitrais catarinenses. A arbitragem configura-se como meio célere e confiável de resolução de controvérsias, inserindo-se numa dimensão contributiva extrajudicial, tanto no âmbito jurídico, como social e econômico. / Changes to the hypermodern society and the organization of companies have caused the expansion of new decision-making processes through cooperated means of treatment and settlement of litigations, which started to be used more frequently by interested parties in addition to the jurisdictional services by the State. From this point of view, arbitration may be regarded as a democratic development tool for access the justice, as it emphasizes the agent´s condition to settle conflicts of private and financial nature, in view that it is grounded on the principle of autonomy of will of the parties. Incredulity of a great part of the Brazilian society to settle its conflicts through the local Judiciary Power results from its inefficiency, delay and unpredictableness when providing its services to population, which may have negative reflections on the economic development of Brazil. As a result, it must be examined if arbitration is an efficient mechanism as an economic institution in view of the reasons for which individuals and companies decide to settle their conflicts by including arbitration clauses in their agreements having the possible reduction in the transaction costs. Therefore, the new arbitration legislation aims at emphasizing the guarantee of democracy expressed by participation of the parties in the process conduction, which is consolidated through constitutional definition of the Brazilian civil procedure law. Such a situation stresses the interpretation of the phenomenon presented under matrix of the hermeneutical, phenomenological method and approach of the Law Economic Analysis associated to conduction of an empirical investigation of exploratory and field nature of the main Chambers of Arbitration in the State of Santa Catarina. Arbitration is a fast, reliable mean of litigation settlement inserted in an extrajudicial contributive dimension in the legal, social, and economic area.