Distorting the Law Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis

Name: Distorting the Law Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
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ISBN: 9780226314648

ISBN-10: 0226314642

ISBN-13: 9780226314648

Edition: 2004

Authors: William Haltom, Michael McCann

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In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the mass media and reform proponents. Distorting the Law lays bare how media coverage has…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



The Social Production of Legal Knowledge Part One: Contesting Legal Realities



Pop Torts: Tales of Legal Degeneration and Moral Regeneration



In Retort: Narratives versus Numbers



ATLA Shrugged: Plaintiffs' Lawyers Play Defense Part Two: Reporting Legal Realities



Full Tort Press: Media Coverage of Civil Litigation



Java Jive: Genealogy of a Juridical Icon



Smoke Signals from the Tobacco Wars



Law through the Looking Glass of Mass Politics


References


Index