Tort law in America : an intellectual history
Type
Book
Authors
DDC
346.7303
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
xxviii, 395 pages
Subject
American General Law
Abstract
"Widely regarded as a standard in the field, G. Edward White's Tort Law in American is a concise and accessible history of the way legal scholars and judges have conceptualized the subject of torts, the reasons that changes in certain rules and doctrines have occurred, and the people who brought about these changes." - Voila
Description
Content:
The intellectual origins of torts in America -- The impact of legal science on tort law, 1880-1910 -- The impact of realism on tort law, 1910-1945 -- The twentieth-century judge as torts theorist: Cardozo -- William Prosser, consensus thought, and the nature of tort law, 1945-1970 -- The twentieth-century judge as torts theorist: Traynor -- The 1970s: neoconceptualism and the future of tort law -- The unexpected persistence of negligence, 1980-2000 -- Entering the twenty-first century.
The intellectual origins of torts in America -- The impact of legal science on tort law, 1880-1910 -- The impact of realism on tort law, 1910-1945 -- The twentieth-century judge as torts theorist: Cardozo -- William Prosser, consensus thought, and the nature of tort law, 1945-1970 -- The twentieth-century judge as torts theorist: Traynor -- The 1970s: neoconceptualism and the future of tort law -- The unexpected persistence of negligence, 1980-2000 -- Entering the twenty-first century.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (339) and index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Donated by Graham Price.
Number of Copies
1
