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Women, Mothers, And The Law Of Fright: A History, Martha Chamallas, Linda K. Kerber
Women, Mothers, And The Law Of Fright: A History, Martha Chamallas, Linda K. Kerber
Michigan Law Review
This article presents a gendered history of the law's treatment of fright-based physical injuries. Our goal is to connect the law of fright to the changing cultural and intellectual forces of the twentieth century. Through a feminist lens, we reexamine the accounts of the legal treatment of fright-based injuries offered by Victorian-erajurists, traditionalist legal scholars of the first two decades of the twentieth century, a legal realist in the 1930s, and a Freudian medical-legal commentator from the 1940s, all of whom helped to shape present-day tort doctrine. We conclude with an account of Dillon v. Legg, in which the …
Stories Of Rights: Developing Moral Theory And Teaching Law, Patricia A. Cain, Jean C. Love
Stories Of Rights: Developing Moral Theory And Teaching Law, Patricia A. Cain, Jean C. Love
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Rights, Restitution, & Risk: Essays in Moral Theory by Judith Jarvis Thomson, edited by William Parent