This book is an introduction to the emerging field of forensic economics, or how civil litigation determines financial compensation. Economic damages or losses are claimed within a wide array of civil law cases. Civil law is subdivided into sub-fields such as death and injury, breach of contract, lost profits, employment discrimination, and the like. Each of these types of cases is governed both by legislated rules (statutes) and the findings of case law. Numerous differences in methods and scope form the legal landscape from state to state. In federal and state courts in the United States,...