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Fault lines : tort law as cultural practice /
This pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford Law Books,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Cultural lives of law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : tort law as cultural practice / David M. Engel and Michael McCann
- Law, liability, and culture / David Nelken
- Torts and notions of community : more observations on units of legal culture / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
- India's tort deficit : sketch for a historical portrait / Marc Galanter
- Liability insurance at the tort-crime boundary / Tom Baker
- Juries as conduits for culture? / Valerie P. Hans
- Framing fast-food litigation : tort claims, mass media, and the politics of responsibility in the United States / William Haltom and Michael McCann
- Discrimination and outrage : exploring the gap between civil rights and tort recoveries / Martha Chamallas
- Regulating Middlesex / Anne Bloom
- Whiteness, equal treatment, and the valuation of injury in torts, 1900-1949 / Jennifer B. Wriggins
- The role of tort lawsuits in reconstructing the issue of police abuse in the United Kingdom / Charles R. Epp
- Lawyers and solicitors separated by a common legal system : anti-tobacco litigation in the United States and Britain / Lynn Mather
- Suing doctors in Japan : structure, culture, and the rise of malpractice litigation / Eric A. Feldman
- The role of the judiciary in asbestos injury compensation in Japan / Takao Tanase
- Discourses of causation in injury cases : exploring Thai and American legal cultures / David M. Engel
- "Nobody broke it, it just broke" : causation as an instrument of obfuscation and oppression / Ann Scales
- The cultural agenda of tort litigation : constructing responsibility in the Rocky Mountain frontier / Joyce Sterling and Nancy Reichman.