“Workmen’s compensation . . . ,” it has been written, “. . . is in many ways the poor stepchild of law school education.” According to Professor Richard Epstein, who made this statement in 1977:

The massive volume of cases decided under the workmen’s compensation statutes alone gives us sufficient reason to subject them to detailed analysis and scrutiny. Yet the entire topic is all too often treated as a mysterious and arcane branch of the law that refuses to yield any of its mysteries in an academic setting . . . “ 

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