Who should make America's tort law
Subtitle: courts or legislatures?
By: by Victor E. Scwartz, Mark A. Behrens, Mark D. Taylor ; foreword by Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV ; introduction by John Greene
Publisher: Washington Legal Foundation
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C. (2009 Massachusetts Ave, N.W., Washington 20036)
Language: eng
Subjects: Torts
Table of contents: title: I.; title: A page of legal history -- -- II.; title: Legislatures versus courts: who sets public policy -- -- III.; title: State "constitutionalism" run wild -- -- IV.; title: Balancing the roles of state legislatures and courts over who should make tort law -- -- V.; title: Providing an alternative mechanism for creating law -- -- Appendix A.; title: Tort reform laws held unconstitutional by state courts after 1983 -- -- Appendix B.; title: Tort reform laws upheld as constitutional by state courts after 1983 -- -- Appendix C.; title: State reception statutes -- -- Appendix D.; title: Model law: Adoption of Common Law Act.