Tort Law in America

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Tort Law in America

An Intellectual History

History: specific events and topics Law of torts, damages and compensation

Author: G. Edward White

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Language: English

Published by: Oxford University Press

Published on: 21st February 1985

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 339 Kb

ISBN: 9780190281281


Overview

This history of tort law in America looks at how the subject has been conceptualized, pointing out why changes in rules occurred, and who did the changing.

Perspectives

White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomenon of professionalization in the late 19th and 20th centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since it became a discrete field.

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