Tort Law in America
An Intellectual History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10241579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald M Roper (corresponding author), Gillian E White (0000-0002-7584-7295) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 631 |
| Publication date | 1980-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2207240 |
| OpenAlex | W2960725372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
This history of tort law in America looks at how the subject has been conceptualized, pointing out why changes in rules occurred, and who did the changing. White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomoenon of professionalization in the late 19th and 20th centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since it became a discrete field
Liability · Political science · Tort · Criminal Law and Evidence · History · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal principles and applications
Contested Terrains and Regime Politics
Changing the Common Law
Accident costs, resource allocation and individual rationality
Coping with Insidious Injuries
Trial by Accident
The Bondsman's Burden
Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy
From Public Interest to Private Rights
Contested Terrains and Regime Politics
Creating the Reasonable Child
The “Discovery” of Law by English and American Jurists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
The Role of Interest Groups in Collective Interest Policy‐Making
The welfare courts
Pragmatic realism and proximate cause in America
A Judicial Abandonment of Blacks? Rethinking the "State Action" Cases of the Waite Court
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2017 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |