RAND Law, Business, and Regulation (LBR) conducts research in four key areas:
Civil Justice
This research includes innovative studies of medical malpractice, product liability, alternative dispute resolution, class action lawsuits and mass torts, auto injury compensation, and trends in jury verdicts.
Institute for Civil Justice
Corporate Ethics, Governance, and Regulation
This research includes pioneering studies of corporate ethics, governance, and regulatory compliance. Its purpose is to identify ways that businesses can operate ethically, legally, and profitably at the same time.
Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance
Workplace Health & Safety
RAND is one of the nation's leading sources of research on workers' compensation and workplace health and safety. Our studies are designed to improve worker health and safety and reduce the economic costs of workplace accidents and illnesses.
Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace
Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship
This body of work assesses policies that affect entrepreneurship. It leverages and extends RAND research on a wide range of policy topics, including health care, civil justice, defense, employment law, consumer law, and securities regulation.
Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy