Fault Lines Tort Law as Cultural Practice
Synopsis
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.
Book details
- Series:
- The Cultural Lives of Law (Book 41)
- Author:
- David M. Engel, Michael McCann
- ISBN:
- 9780804771207
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804756136, 9780804756143, 9780804756136, 9780804756143
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Pages:
- 408
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2022-05-27
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Copyright by:
- the Board of Trustees of the
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction