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Author Feinman, Jay M.

Title Un-making law : the conservative campaign to roll back the common law / Jay M. Feinman.

Imprint Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  340.3 F327u 2004    ---  Available
Description 235 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-223) and index.
Contents The resurrection of classical common law -- Injuries, victims, and the attack on tort law -- A realistic view of tort law -- Consumers, workers, and the tyranny of freedom of contract -- Freedom of contract and fair contract -- Property rights and the right's property -- Takings and transcendental nonsense -- The movement to unmake the law.
Subject Tort liability of corporations.
Eminent domain.
Conservatism.
Common law -- United States.
Law reform -- United States.
Justice, Administration of -- Political aspects
ISBN 0807044261 (cloth : acid-free paper)

 
    
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