The American illness : essays on the rule of law /

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.

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Other Authors: Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.