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An Injury Law Constitution.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (307 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199939572
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Injury Law ConstitutionDDC classification:
  • 346.7303/23
LOC classification:
  • KF1257.S53 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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