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New Perspectives on American Law An Introduction to Private Law in Politics and Society

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ISBN-10: 0890897093

ISBN-13: 9780890897096

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lief Carter, Austin Sarat, Mark Silverstein, William Weaver

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New Perspectives on American Law provides students with a political science perspective on the common law of contracts, torts, criminal law, property, and civil procedure. Selected cases and materials, replete with commentary, are tailored for undergraduate use. Each of the five sections begins with a short introductory essay outlining the topic and the social/political science implications raised by the materials. The cases in each section have been edited to be understandable, and nonessential citations and secondary references in cases have been deleted. This textbook is unique in that it not only argues that traditional common law areas of the law are worthy of political study, but also…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication date: 10/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Lief H. Carter served as Colorado College's McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership from 1995 to 2004. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1973 to 1995. He is the author of Reason in Law, Seventh Edition and has published major texts in constitutional law, legal reasoning, and administrative law. He was the first faculty member at the University of Georgia to receive the top award for teaching intwo different years, and he has won national awards and recognition from the American Political Science Association.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought, Amherst College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Civil Procedure
Jurisdiction
A Short Note on Pleadings
Discovery
Managerial Judges
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Criminal Law
Who Is the Victim? Or, on What Grounds Do We Apply the State's Coercive Force?
The Scope of the Criminal Law
Mental Elements
Causation
Defenses
Selected Bibliography
Torts
What Does It Mean to Intend Harm?
Introduction to Duty of Care: Citizen Know Thyself
Causation: Playing Ducks and Drakes With Nature
Negligence as Breach of Duty: Contingency and Duty in the Technological World
Strict Liability in a Complex Economic Environment
Products Liability
Vicarious Liability: Drunken Sailors, Stupid Employees, and the People Who Hire Them
When the Government Kills and Injures
Special Relationships: The Palsgraf Principle Faces Up to the Demands of a Modern Technological Society
Speech, the First Amendment, and the Dangers of Defamation Awards
Outrage and Organizational Psychosis: When Corporations Lose Their Minds Or Their Morals
Conclusion
Politics and the Law of Contracts
A First Look at Contract Law
Why Contract Law Is Politics, Not Economics
Two Lessons About Politics from "Ordinary" Contracts Disputes in the Courts
Contract Law in American Political History
Contracts Today: A Forum for Contemporary Moral Debate
Conclusion
Select Biliography
Property
Possession
Accession and Value
Adverse Possession
Gifts
Forfeiture
Landlord/Tenant
Real Property
License
Intellectual Property
Conclusion
Index
About the Authors