Books by Timothy D. Lytton

In an era of anxiety about the safety and industrialization of the food supply, kosher food—with $12 billion in sales—is big business. Timothy Lytton tells a story of successful private-sector regulation: how independent certification agencies rescued U.S. kosher supervision from corruption and made it a model of nongovernmental administration.

Child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and its cover-up by church officials have obscured the story of the tort system's success in bringing the scandal to light. The lessons of clergy litigation give reason to reconsider the case for tort reform and to examine how tort litigation can enhance performance of policymaking institutions.