Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique

Titre(s) : The American illness [Texte électronique] : essays on the rule of law / edited by F.H. Buckley

Publication : New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013

Description matérielle : 1 online resource

Note(s) : 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.

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Buckley, Francis H. (1948-....). Auteur ou responsable intellectuel  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Genre ou forme : Essai (genre littéraire) américain  Voir les notices liées en tant que genre ou forme

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300195071

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45082621x

Notice n° :  FRBNF45082621 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : 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.