Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle over Litigation in American Society
ISBN: 9780520243231 | 0520243234
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of California Pr
Pub. Date: 10/1/2004
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Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes inLawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rightsis a nation not of litigious citizens, but of litigious policies--laws that promote the use of litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies. This book is a cogent account of how such policies have come to shape public life and everyda... MORE
| Acknowledgments | ix | ||||
| INTRODUCTION | 1 | (21) | |||
| 1. THE BATTLE OVER LITIGATION | 22 | (38) | |||
| 2. THE CREATION OF A LITIGIOUS POLICY | |||||
| ... MORE | 60 | (43) | ||
| 3. A FAILED ANTILITIGATION EFFORT | |||||
| 103 | (39) | |||
| 4. A SHOT OF ANTILITIGATION REFORM | |||||
| 142 | (29) | |||
| 5. UNDERSTANDING THE LITIGATION DEBATE | 171 | (34) | |||
| Notes | 205 | (56) | |||
| Index | 261 |
Thomas F. Burke is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College
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