This is the second of two companion papers that discuss accidents caused by robots. In the first paper (Guerra et al., 2021), we presented the novel problems posed by robot accidents, and assessed the related legal approaches and institutional opportunities. In this paper, we build on the...

In robot torts, robots carry out activities that are partially controlled by a human operator. Several legal and economic scholars across the world have argued for the need to rethink legal remedies as we apply them to robot torts. Yet to date, there exists no general formulation of liability in...

This article examines the wealth maximization principle, as developed by Richard Posner, and aims to clarify misunderstandings, address criticism, and contextualize its evolution within legal and philosophical analysis. The paper first delineates the distinction between the concepts of...