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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction: Tort Law as Cultural Practice | |
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| On Legal Culture and Cultural Analysis of Tort Law | |
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| Law, Liability, and Culture | |
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| Torts and Notions of Community: More Observations on Units of Legal Culture | |
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| Different Approaches to Cultural Analysis of Tort Law | |
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| India's Tort Deficit: Sketch for a Historical Portrait | |
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| Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary | |
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| Juries as Conduits for Culture? | |
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| Framing Fast-Food Litigation: Tort Claims, Mass Media, and the Politics of Responsibility in the United States | |
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| Injury and Identity: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Tort Law | |
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| Discrimination and Outrage: Exploring the Gap Between Civil Rights and Tort Recoveries | |
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| Regulating Middlesex | |
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| Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900-1949 | |
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| Issues of Risk and Responsibility | |
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| The Role of Tort Lawsuits in Reconstructing the Issue of Police Abuse in the United Kingdom | |
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| Lawyers and Solicitors Separated by a Common Legal System: Anti-Tobacco Litigation in the United States and Britain | |
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| Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation | |
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| The Role of the Judiciary in Asbestos Injury Compensation in Japan | |
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| Causation, Duty, and Obligation | |
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| Discourses of Causation in Injury Cases: Exploring Thai and American Legal Cultures | |
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| "Nobody Broke It, It Just Broke": Causation as an Instrument of Obfuscation and Oppression | |
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| The Cultural Agenda of Tort Litigation: Constructing Responsibility in the Rocky Mountain Frontier | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cases, Statutes, and Agency Reports | |
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| Index | |