The American Illness : Essays on the Rule of Law.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: INTRODUCTION -- The Rule of Law in America -- PART 2: RELATIVE DECLINE -- An Exceptional Nation? -- PART 3: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence -- Lawyers as Spam: Congressional Capture Explains Why U.S. Lawyers Exceed the Optimum -- Regulation and Litigation: Complements or Substitutes? -- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer? -- PART 4: CIVIL PROCEDURE -- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure -- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount in Controversy -- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure -- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World? -- PART 5: TORT LAW -- A Tamer Tort Law: The Canada-U.S. Divide -- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses -- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation -- PART 6: CONTRACT LAW -- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law -- Text versus Context: The Failure of the Unitary Law of Contract Interpretation -- Exit and the American Illness -- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law -- PART 7: CORPORATE AND SECURITIES LAW -- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore -- PART 8: CRIMINAL LAW -- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality -- PART 9: HOW NATIONS GROW (OR DON'T) -- The Legacy of Progressive Thought: Decline, Not Death, by a Thousand Cuts -- Overtaking -- The Rule of Law and China -- PART 10: CHANGING COURSE -- Reversing -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.

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