Fault lines
Subtitle: tort law as cultural practice
By: edited by David M. Engel and Michael McCann.
Contributors: Engel, David M.; McCann, Michael W., 1952-
Series: The cultural lives of law; Cultural lives of law
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804756136; 9780804756143
Subjects: Torts.; Culture and law.; Torts -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : tort law as cultural practice / David Engel and Michael McCann; value: Law, liability, and culture / David Nelken; value: Torts and notions of community : more observations on units of legal culture / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann; value: India's tort deficit : sketch for a historical portrait / Marc Galanter; value: Liability insurance at the tort-crime boundary / Tom Baker; value: Juries as conduits for culture / Valerie P. Hans; value: Framing fast-food litigation : tort claims, mass media, and the politics of responsibility in the United States / William Haltom and Michael McCann; value: Discrimination and outrage : exploring the gap between civil rights and tort recoveries / Martha Chamallas; value: Regulating Middlesex / Anne Bloom; value: Whiteness, equal treatment, and the valuation of injury in torts, 1900-1949 / Jennifer B. Wriggins; value: The role of tort lawsuits in reconstructing the issue of police abuse in the United Kingdom / Charles R. Epp; value: Lawyers and solicitors separated by a common legal system : anti-tobacco litigation in the United States and Britain / Lynn Mather; value: Suing doctors in Japan : structure, culture, and the rise of malpractice litigation / Eric A. Feldman; value: The role of the judiciary in asbestos injury compensation in Japan / Takao Tanase; value: Discourses of causation in injury cases : exploring Thai and American legal cultures / David M. Engel; value: "Nobody broke it, it just broke" : causation as an instrument of obfuscation and oppression / Ann Scales; value: The cultural agenda of tort litigation : constructing responsibility in the Rocky Mountain frontier / Joyce Sterling and Nancy Reichman.