Fault Lines - Tort Law As Cultural Practice

Zusatztext "Unified in its attention to tort law in action, this breakthrough volume incorporates years of independent, original research from leading scholars. With clear, comparative examples, it reveals how changes in tort law practices relate to larger social changes." Informationen zum Autor David M. Engel is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo Law School. Michael McCann is Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship and Director of the Law, Societies, and Justice program and the Comparative Law and Society Studies Center at the University of Washington. Klappentext This pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Zusammenfassung This pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Product details

• Authors: David (EDT)/ McCann Engel, David M. Mccann Engel
• Assisted by: David Engel (Editor), David M Engel (Editor), David M. Engel (Editor), Michael Mccann (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2009
• EAN: 9780804756136
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5613-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law