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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.

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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Comparative law

• Full title: Fault Lines
• Subtitle: Tort Law as Cultural Practice
• Author: David M. Engel, Michael McCann
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 402
• EAN: 9780804756136
• ISBN: 0804756139
• ID: 04718267
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 635 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. April 2009

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