Understanding Enterprise Liability : Rethinking Tort Reform for the Twenty-First Century


Virginia. Nolan
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Philadelphia PA : : Temple University Press, , 2011.
Omfang
1 online resource (266 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Enterprise Liability: An Introduction; 1. Contemporary Tort Reform and Enterprise Liability; 2. Traditional Tort Theory and Enterprise Liability: An Overview; Part II: The Compensation Plan Strategy; 3. Workers' Compensation Plans and Enterprise Liability; 4. Leon Green: Explication and Application; 5. The Columbia Plan and Dashed Hopes; 6. Renewed Focus on Compensation Plans in the 1950s; 7. The Keeton-O'Connell Plan, Legislative Successes, and Proposed Extensions of No-Fault; 8. Dashed Hopes (Again) and the Need for Alternatives. - 17. The Success and Fragmentation of the Theory of Enterprise Liability18. The Emergence of (Calabresi's) Economic Analysis as an ""Ally"" of Enterprise Liability; 19. The Antagonism Between Calabresi's Economic Analysis and Enterprise Liability; 20. The Ascendancy of Economic Analysis and Its Opposition to the Enterprise Liability Agenda; 21. Contemporary Tort Theory and the Reinvention of Enterprise Liability; Part V: The Contemporary Agenda of Enterprise Liability; 22. The Legislative Agenda; 23. The Need for Alternatives to Legislation; 24. A Common Law Proposal; Notes; Index. - Part III: The Common Law Strategy9. Leon Green and the ""Tort"" Version; 10. Karl Llewllyn and the ""Sales Law"" Version: Strict Products Liability Proposed; 11. Perspectives on Courts and Legislatures: The 1930s; 12. Increased Focus on the Common Law: The 1940s; 13. The Possibility of a Judicially Created Strict Enterprise Liability; 14. Strict Products Liability: Recognition and Adoption; 15. The Damages Agenda of the 1950s; 16. Common Law Successes and Proposed Extensions; Part IV: Enterprise Liability in Tort Theory: 1960-1993. - Historical insights and a fresh perspective on the politics and possibilities for sensible tort reform
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