Tort Wars brings together the diverse and usually insufficiently related strands of tort law and treats the moral, economic, and systemic problems running through those strands with a single analysis and theory. In that tort law employs theory at all, it is typically theory measured against notions of corrective justice or appeals to utility. Both have severe prescriptive restrictions and limited explanatory power and often stray from any useful description of tort cases in the courts. Tort Wars looks at the nature of dispute resolution techniques, criticizes the blase justice and more esoteric utility theory, and examines the problems of both the legal academy and the veracity vacuum in the courtroom. Further, it explores the conceptual differences between tort and contract, locating contract as a subset of tort. It uses examples drawn from the edges of tort law in an attempt to measure central cases by the marginal ones and to provide a barometer of emerging legal and social change, achieved through imposing an individualized peace.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521897037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94969361
Product Key Features
Author
Joel Levin
Publication Name
Tort Wars
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Law
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
157mm
Item Weight
530g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Joel Levin
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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