TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shapo,Marshall S.
TI  - An Injury Law Constitution
SN  - 9780199939572
AV  - KF1257.S53 2012eb 
U1  - 346.7303/23 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Personal injuries -- United States
KW  - Damages -- United States
KW  - Workers'' compensation -- Law and legislation -- United States
KW  - Torts -- United States
KW  - Actions and defenses -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. An Injury Law Constitution -- 2. Injury Law and Power -- 3. Rights -- 4. Injuries -- 5. Mechanisms of the Law -- 6. Legal Doctrine -- 7. Functional Elements of the Law -- 8. Social and Individual Goods, Sometimes in Competition -- 9. The Rationales of Injury Law -- 10. Remedies and Sanctions -- 11. The Supreme Court and Injury Law -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - An Injury Law Constitution presents a novel thesis that embraces leading features of the American law of injuries. The book argues that the body of law that Americans have developed concerning responsibility for injuries and prevention of injuries has some of the qualities of a constitution-a fundamental set of principles that govern relations between human persons and between individual persons and corporate and governmental institutions
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