The American illness essays on the rule of law / edited by F.H. Buckley.
| Other author | Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013] |
| Description | xii, 534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The rule of law in America / F.H. Buckley -- An exceptional nation? / F.H. Buckley -- Are Americans more litigious? Some quantitative evidence / J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen -- Lawyers as spam : congressional capture explains why U.S. lawyers exceed the optimum / Stephen P. Magee -- Regulation and litigation : complements or substitutes? / Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick -- Does product liability law make us safer? / W. Kip Viscusi -- The American illness and comparative civil procedure / Daniel Jutras -- The proportionality principle and the amount in controversy / Peter B. Rutledge -- The allocation of discovery costs and the foundations of modern procedure / Martin H. Redish -- Does increased litigation increase justice in a second-best world? / Jeremy Kidd and Todd J. Zywicki -- A tamer tort law : the Canada-U.S. divide / Michael Trebilcock and Paul-Erik Veel -- The expansion of modern U.S. tort law and its excesses / George L. Priest -- Regulation, taxation, and litigation / W. Kip Viscusi -- An English lawyer looks at American contract law / Michael Bridge -- Text versus context : the failure of the unitary law of contract interpretation / Robert E. Scott -- Exit and the American illness / Erin O'Hara O'Connor and Larry E. Ribstein -- The dramatic rise of consumer protection law / Joshua D. Wright and Eric Helland -- How American corporate and securities law drives business offshore / Stephen M. Bainbridge -- Corporate crime, overcriminalization, and the failure of American public morality / Jeffrey S. Parker -- The legacy of progressive thought : decline, not death, by a thousand cuts / Richard A. Epstein -- Overtaking / Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin -- The rule of law and China / Francis Fukuyama -- Reversing / F.H. Buckley. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012037080 |
| ISBN | 9780300175219 (alk. paper) |
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