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Too many laws, too many lawyers--that's the necessary consequence of a complex society, or so conventional wisdom has it. Countless pundits insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia, sentimentality, or naiveté. But the conventional view, the noted legal scholar Richard E...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epstein, Richard Allen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Too Many Lawyers, Too Much Law
  • I. Cutting through Complexity
  • 1. The Virtues of Simplicity
  • 2. The Enemies of Simplicity
  • II. The Simple Rules
  • 3. Autonomy and Property
  • 4. Contract
  • 5. Torts
  • 6. Necessity, Coordination, and Just Compensation
  • 7. Take and Pay
  • III. The Rules in Action
  • 8. Contracting for Labor
  • 9. Employment Discrimination and Comparable Worth
  • 10. Professional Liability for Financial Loss
  • 11. The Origins of Product Liability Law
  • 12. The Contemporary Product Liability Scene
  • 13. The Internal Life of the Corporation
  • 14. The Corporation and the World
  • 15. Environmental Protection and Private Property
  • Conclusion: The Challenges to Simple Rules
  • Notes
  • Index of Statutes
  • Index of Cases
  • General Index

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