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1 online resource |
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The rule of law in America / F.H. Buckley -- An exceptional nation? / F.H. Buckley -- Are Americans more litigious? : some quantitative evidence / J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen -- Lawyers as spam : congressional capture explains why U.S. lawyers exceed the optimum and their cost -- Stephen p. magee -- Regulation and litigation : complements or substitutes? / Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick -- Does product liability law make us safer? / W. Kip Viscusi -- American illness and comparative civil procedure / Daniel Jutras -- The proportionality principle and the amount in controversy / Peter B. Rutledge -- Allocation of discovery costs and the foundations of modern procedure / Martin H. Redish -- Does increased litigation increase justice in a second-best world? / Jeremy Kidd and Todd J. Zywicki -- A tamer tort law : the canada-u.s. divide / Michael Trebilcock and Paul-Erik Veel -- The expansion of modern U.S. tort law and its excesses / George L. Priest -- Regulation, taxation, and litigation / W. Kip Viscusi -- An English lawyer looks at American contract law / Michael Bridge -- Text versus context : the failure of the unitary law of contract interpretation / Robert E. Scott -- Exit and the American illness / Erin O'Hara O'Connor and Larry E. Ribstein -- The dramatic rise of consumer protection law / Joshua D. Wright and Eric Helland -- How American corporate and securities law drives business offshore / Stephen M. Bainbridge -- Corporate crime, overcriminalization, and the failure of American public morality / Jeffrey S. Parker -- The legacy of progressive thought : decline, not death, by a thousand cuts / Richard A. Epstein -- Overtaking / Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin -- The rule of law and China / Francis Fukuyama -- Reversing / F.H. Buckley |
| Summary |
This text brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the US legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Law -- United States.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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Law
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948- editor.
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| LC no. |
2012037080 |
| ISBN |
9780300195071 |
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0300195079 |
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