AuthorFletcher, George P
TitleAmerican law in a global context : the basics / George P. Fletcher and Steve Sheppard
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Descript xii, 682 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

PART I Common Law and Civil Law ONE The Common Law 15(14) TWO The Civil Law 29(25) THREE The Language of Law: Common and Civil 54(21) FOUR Legal Reasoning 75(36) PART II Constitutional Identity FIVE The Constitution as Code 111(21) SIX Judicial Review 132(18) SEVEN Federalism 150(22) EIGHT The Alternative Constitution 172(29) NINE Equality Prevails 201(23) TEN Freedom Fights Back 224(19) ELEVEN The Jury 243(16) TWELVE Due Process Ascendant 259(17) THIRTEEN Coordinating the States 276(26) FOURTEEN Multiple Common Laws? 302(17) PART III The Theory of the Common Law: Liberalism and Its Alternatives FIFTEEN Feudalism in Land Law 319(19) SIXTEEN The Triumph of Equity 338(20) SEVENTEEN Contemporary Property 358(18) EIGHTEEN The Frontiers of Property 376(19) NINETEEN Contract as Law 395(18) TWENTY Contract as Justice 413(13) TWENTY-ONE Contractual Harm 426(14) TWENTY-TWO Foundations of Tort Law 440(12) TWENTY-THREE Economic Efficiency 452(20) TWENTY-FOUR From Contributory to Comparative Fault 472(16) TWENTY-FIVE Disputed Boundaries: Punitive Damages 488(14) TWENTY-SIX The American Civil Trial in Outline 502(29) PART IV Criminal Law: The Adversary System and Its Alternatives TWENTY-SEVEN Where Would You Rather Be Tried? 531(18) TWENTY-EIGHT The Fate of Bernhard Goetz 549(19) TWENTY-NINE Self-Defense: Domestic and International 568(23) SUMMARY The Right and the Reasonable


SUBJECT

  1. Law -- United States
  2. Lawyers
  3. Foreign -- United States -- Handbooks
  4. manuals
  5. etc

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