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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 | |