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Book title: Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice.
Contributors: David M. Engel - Editor, Michael McCann - Editor.
Publisher: Stanford University Press.
Place of publication: Stanford, CA.
Publication year: 2009.
Page number: xv.
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- List of Tables and Figures ix
- Contributors xi
- Introduction: Tort Law as Cultural Practice 1
- Part I - On Legal Culture and Cultural Analysis of Tort Law 19
- Chapter One - Law, Liability, and Culture 21
- Chapter Two - Torts and Notions of Community More Observations on Units of Legal Culture 39
- Part II - Different Approaches to Cultural Analysis of Tort Law 45
- Chapter Three - India's Tort Deficit Sketch for a Historical Portrait 47
- Chapter Four - Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary 66
- Chapter Five - Juries as Conduits for Culture? 80
- Chapter Six - Framing Fast-Food Litigation Tort Claims, Mass Media, and the Politics of Responsibility in the United States 97
- Part III - Injury and Identity Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Tort Law 117
- Chapter Seven - Discrimination and Outrage Exploring the Gap Between Civil Rights and Tort Recoveries 119
- Chapter Eight - Regulating Middlesex 137
- Chapter Nine - Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900–1949 156
- Part IV - Issues of Risk and Responsibility 173
- Chapter Ten - The Role of Tort Lawsuits in Reconstructing the Issue of Police Abuse in the United Kingdom 175
- Chapter Eleven - Lawyers and Solicitors Separated by a Common Legal System Anti-Tobacco Litigation in the United States and Britain 192
- Chapter Twelve - Suing Doctors in Japan Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation 211
- Chapter Thirteen - The Role of the Judiciary in Asbestos Injury Compensation in Japan 233
- Part V - Causation, Duty, and Obligation 249
- Chapter Fourteen - Discourses of Causation in Injury Cases Exploring Thai and American Legal Cultures 251
- Chapter Fifteen - “nobody Broke It, It Just Broke” Causation as an Instrument of Obfuscation and Oppression 269
- Chapter Sixteen - The Cultural Agenda of Tort Litigation Constructing Responsibility in the Rocky Mountain Frontier 287
- Acknowledgments 309
- Notes 311
- Bibliography 329
- Cases, Statutes, and Agency Reports 361
- Index 365
- The Cultural Lives of Law 385
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