Fault Lines
Subtitle: Tort Law as Cultural Practice
By: edited by David M. Engel and Michael McCann.
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Law Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780804756143; 9780804756136
Copyright date: 2009
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Tort Law as Cultural Practice, by David M. Engel and Michael McCann
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: On Legal Culture and Cultural Analysis of Tort Law; label: Chapter 1
title: Law, Liability, and Culture, by David Nelken
pagenum: 21; label: Chapter 2
title: Torts and Notions of Community: More Observations on Units of Legal Culture, by Keebet Von Benda-Beckman
pagenum: 39; label: Part II
title: Different Approaches to Cultural Analysis of Tort Law; label: Chapter 3
title: India's Tort Deficit: Sketch for a Historical Portrait, by Marc Galanter
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter 4
title: Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary, by Tom Baker
pagenum: 66; label: Chapter 5
title: Juries as Conduits for Culture?, by Valerie P. Hans
pagenum: 80; label: Chapter 6
title: Framing Fast-Food Litigation: Tort Claims, Mass Media, and the Politics of Responsibility in the United States
pagenum: 97; label: Part III
title: Injury and Identity: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Tort Law; label: Chapter 7
title: Discrimination and Outrage: Exploring the Gap Between Civil Rights and Tort Recoveries, by Martha Chamallas
pagenum: 119; label: Chapter 8
title: Regulating Middlesex, by Anne Bloom
pagenum: 137; label: Chapter 9
title: Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900-1949, by Jennifer B. Wriggins
pagenum: 156; label: Part IV
title: Issues of Risk and Responsibility; label: Chapter 10
title: The Role of Tort Lawsuits in Reconstructing the Issue of Police Abuse in the United Kingdom, by Charles R. Epp
pagenum: 175; label: Chapter 11
title: Lawyers and Solicitors Separated by a Common Legal System: Anti-Tobacco Litigation in the United States and Britain, by Lynn Mather
pagenum: 192; label: Chapter 12
title: Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation, by Eric A. Feldman
pagenum: 211; label: Chapter 13
title: The Role of the Judiciary in Asbestos Injury Compensation in Japan, by Takao Tanase
pagenum: 233; label: Part V
title: Causation, Duty, and Obligation; label: Chapter 14
title: Discourses of Causation in Injury Cases: Exploring Thai and American Legal Cultures, by David M. Engel
pagenum: 251; label: Chapter 15
title: "Nobody Broke It, It Just Broke": Causation as an Instrument of Obfuscation and Oppression, by Ann Scales
pagenum: 269; label: Chapter 16
title: The Cultural Agenda of Tort Litigation: Constructing Responsibility in the Rocky Mountain Frontier, by Joyce Sterling and Nancy Reichman
pagenum: 287; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 309; label: Notes
pagenum: 311; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 329; label: Cases, Statutes, and Agency Reports
pagenum: 361; label: Index
pagenum: 365