Tort Law as Cultural Practice
Edición de la obra Fault Lines
| Autor | Michael W. McCann, David M. Engel |
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| Editorial | Stanford University Press, Stanford Law Books |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009 |
| Lugar | Stanford, USA |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 408 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780804756143, 9780804756136 |
| ISBN-10 | 0804756147, 0804756139 |
| OCLC | 288379570 |
| LCCN | 2008054141 |
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M478f |
Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, assignment of responsibility, compensation, valuation, and obligation. Examining tort law as a cultural phenomenon and a form of cultural practice, this work makes explicit comparisons of tort law across space and time, looking at the United States, Europe, and Asia in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It draws on theories and methods from law, sociology, political science, and anthropology to offer a truly interdisciplinary, pathbreaking view. Ultimately, tort law, the authors show, nests within a larger web of relationships and shared discursive conventions that organize social life.