Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts

Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts
Author: John Oberdiek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198701381

This book offers a rich insight into the law of torts and cognate fileds, and will be of broad interest to those working in legal and moral philosophy. It has contributions from all over the world and represents the state-of-the art in tort theory.

Litigation and Inequality

Litigation and Inequality
Author: Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 1992-12-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195360907

Through the prism of litigation practice and tactics, Purcell explores the dynamic relationship between legal and social change. He studies changing litigation patterns in suits between individuals and national corporations over tort claims for personal injuries and contract claims for insurance benefits. Purcell refines the "progressive" claim that the federal courts favored business enterprise during this time, identifying specific manners and times in which the federal courts reached decisions both in favor of and against national corporations. He also identifies 1892-1908 as a critical period in the evolution of the twentieth century federal judicial system.

Foundations of Private Law

Foundations of Private Law
Author: James Gordley
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2006-01-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191021717

Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems. The thesis of the book is that underlying these fields of law are common principles, and that these principles can be used to explain the history and development of these areas. These underlying common principles are matters of common sense, which were given their archetypal expression by older jurists who wrote in the Aristotelian tradition. These principles shaped the development of Western law but can resolve legal problems which these older writers did not confront.

Tort Law

Tort Law
Author: Keith N. Hylton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2016-06-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316598497

Tort Law: A Modern Perspective is an advanced yet accessible introduction to tort law for lawyers, law students, and others. Reflecting the way tort law is taught today, it explains the cases and legal doctrines commonly found in casebooks using modern ideas about public policy, economics, and philosophy. With an emphasis on policy rationales, Tort Law encourages readers to think critically about the justifications for legal doctrines. Although the topic of torts is specific, the conceptual approach should pay dividends to those who are interested broadly in regulatory policy and the role of law. Incorporating three decades of advancements in tort scholarship, Tort Law is the textbook for modern torts classrooms.