The American illness : essays on the rule of law /

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This text brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the US legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Law > United States.
Droit > États-Unis.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Law
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The rule of law in America / F.H. Buckley
  • An exceptional nation? / F.H. Buckley
  • Are Americans more litigious? : some quantitative evidence / J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen
  • Lawyers as spam : congressional capture explains why U.S. lawyers exceed the optimum and their cost
  • Stephen p. magee
  • Regulation and litigation : complements or substitutes? / Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick
  • Does product liability law make us safer? / W. Kip Viscusi
  • American illness and comparative civil procedure / Daniel Jutras
  • The proportionality principle and the amount in controversy / Peter B. Rutledge
  • Allocation of discovery costs and the foundations of modern procedure / Martin H. Redish
  • Does increased litigation increase justice in a second-best world? / Jeremy Kidd and Todd J. Zywicki
  • A tamer tort law : the canada-u.s. divide / Michael Trebilcock and Paul-Erik Veel
  • The expansion of modern U.S. tort law and its excesses / George L. Priest
  • Regulation, taxation, and litigation / W. Kip Viscusi
  • An English lawyer looks at American contract law / Michael Bridge
  • Text versus context : the failure of the unitary law of contract interpretation / Robert E. Scott
  • Exit and the American illness / Erin O'Hara O'Connor and Larry E. Ribstein
  • The dramatic rise of consumer protection law / Joshua D. Wright and Eric Helland
  • How American corporate and securities law drives business offshore / Stephen M. Bainbridge
  • Corporate crime, overcriminalization, and the failure of American public morality / Jeffrey S. Parker
  • The legacy of progressive thought : decline, not death, by a thousand cuts / Richard A. Epstein
  • Overtaking / Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin
  • The rule of law and China / Francis Fukuyama
  • Reversing / F.H. Buckley.

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