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• Title:Fault lines : tort law as cultural practice / edited by David M. Engel and Michael McCann.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Engel, David M.
  McCann, Michael W., 1952-
  
• Published/Created:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K923 .F37 2009 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Torts.
  Culture and law.
  Torts--United States.
  
• Description:xiii, 384 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Cultural lives of law.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-359) and index.
  
• ISBN:0804756147 (paper)
  9780804756143 (paper)
  0804756139 (cloth)
  9780804756136 (cloth)
  
• Contents:Introduction. Tort Law as Cultural Practice / David M. Engel and Michael McCann
  Pt. I. On Legal Culture and Cultural Analysis of Tort Law
  1. Law, Liability, and Culture / David Nelken
  2. Torts and Notions of Community: More Observations on Units of Legal Culture / Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann
  Pt. II. Different Approaches to Cultural Analysis of Tort Law
  3. India's Tort Deficit: Sketch for a Historical Portrait / Marc Galanter
  4. Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary / Tom Baker
  5. Juries as Conduits for Culture? / Valerie P. Hans
  6. Framing Fast-Food Litigation: Tort Claims, Mass Media, and the Politics of Responsibility in the United States / William Haltom and Michael Mccann
  Pt. III. Injury and Identity: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Tort Law
  7. Discrimination and Outrage: Exploring the Gap Between Civil Rights and Tort Recoveries / Martha Chamallas
  8. Regulating Middlesex / Anne Bloom
  9. Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900-1949 / Jennifer B. Wriggins
  Pt. IV. Issues of Risk and Responsibility
  10. Role of Tort Lawsuits in Reconstructing the Issue of Police Abuse in the United Kingdom / Charles R. Epp
  11. Lawyers and Solicitors Separated by a Common Legal System: Anti-Tobacco Litigation in the United States and Britain / Lynn Mather
  12. Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation / Eric A. Feldman
  13. Role of the Judiciary in Asbestos Injury Compensation in Japan / Takao Tanase
  Pt. V. Causation, Duty, and Obligation
  14. Discourses of Causation in Injury Cases: Exploring Thai and American Legal Cultures / David M. Engel
  15. "Nobody Broke It, It Just Broke": Causation as an Instrument of Obfuscation and Oppression / Ann Scales
  16. Cultural Agenda of Tort Litigation: Constructing Responsibility in the Rocky Mountain Frontier / Joyce Sterling and Nancy Reichman
  Cases, Statutes, and Agency Reports.