Dust-up
Subtitle: asbestos litigation and the failure of common sense policy reform
By: Jeb Barnes
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781589017665
Description: "Set squarely at the intersection of law, politics, and public policy, Dust-up provides the first in-depth analysis of the political obstacles standing in the way of replacing a system of asbestos litigation that nearly everyone - Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, presidents, and experts - agrees is woefully inefficient and unfair to both victims and businesses"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Today's challenging legislative environment and the politics of efficiency; title: The asbestos crisis in the United States; title: Asbestos litigation reform as a "likely" case for the politics of efficiency; title: The puzzling politics of the Fair Act; title: Implications part I : the politics of efficiency revisited; title: Implications part II : the asbestos case and contemporary American policy-making.