In judge and jury american tort law on trial economists eric helland and alexander tabarrok present their study of tens of thousands of tort cases from across the united states the result is the most complete picture of the us system of civil justice to date examining three of the key players of the tort system juries judges and lawyers helland and tabarrok conclude that the tort system is badly broken in some respects but functions surprisingly well in others. In judge and jury american tort law on trial economists eric helland and alexander tabarrok present their study of tens of thousands of tort cases from across the united states the result is the most complete picture of the us system of civil justice to date examining three of the key players of the tort system juries judges and lawyers helland and tabarrok conclude that the tort system is badly broken in some respects but functions surprisingly well in others. In the highly political tort reform war two economists eric helland and alexander tabarrok have fired a salvo criticizing several aspects of the civil justice system in their new book judge and jury this book uses information drawn from databases of published jury verdicts to challenge the accuracy of several bits of conventional wisdom regarding the health of the tort system in so doing the authors present detailed interesting analysis on topics including race and poverty as