Robert F. Cochran, Robert M. Ackerman

Law and Community

The Case of Torts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Law and Community, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Robert M. Ackerman explore the connections between individualism and communitarianism in American law. The authors argue that, though tort law is dominated by individualistic language, it has significant communitarian influences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780742522008
• ISBN-10: 0742522008
• Artikelnr.: 30978229

Autorenporträt

Robert F. Cochran, Robert M. Ackerman

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Intermediate Communities, For Good and Ill
Chapter 3 Tort Law and Intermediate Communities - An Overview
Chapter 4 An Intermediate Communitarian Perspective on Tort Law
Chapter 5 Torts and Families
Chapter 6 Religious Congregations
Chapter 7 Torts and the Larger Community: The Limits of Legal Obligation
Chapter 8 Preserving the Larger Community (or, how to avoid killing the
goose that laid the golden egg)
Chapter 9 Damages, the Community, and 9/11
Chapter 10 Toward a Communitarian Tort System
Chapter 11 Communitarian Principles and Law