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Heart versus Head : Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America /

Karsten unites his legal commentary with recent scholarship on the political culture of antebellum America in exploring the roots of a pro-plaintiff, humanitarian jurisprudence. In the process, he necessarily addresses the shortcomings of earlier, economic-oriented paradigms regarding judicial rulem...

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Autor principal: Karsten, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An Introduction to This Tale of Two Voices
  • pt. 1. Old Channels and Moorings: A Jurisprudence of the Head. Ch. 1. The Anchors of Precedent, Principle, and Symmetry: Understanding the Jurisprudence of the Head. Ch. 2. Plus ca Change: Contract's Westminster Anchors in Nineteenth-Century America. Ch. 3. On Historical Developments and Barriers to Injured Plaintiffs: Continuity in Tort Law
  • Entr'acte. Eddies: A Jurisprudence of the Hand
  • pt. 2. Strong Currents: A Jurisprudence of the Heart. Ch. 4. Abandoning an Unneighborly Rule: Putting Out the Ancient-Lights Doctrine. Ch. 5. Bottomed on Justice: Allowing What Her Labor Was Worth to the Worker Who Quit. Ch. 6. Enabling the Poor to Have Their Day in Court: The Sanctioning of Contingency-Fee Contracts. Ch. 7. "Larmoyant" Law: Explaining the Fight over the Attractive-Nuisance Doctrine. Ch. 8. Children at Play and Heroic Risks: Big Holes Punched in the Contributory-Negligence Defense.