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Tainted: Food, Identity, And The Search For Dignitary Redress, Melissa D. Mortazavi
Tainted: Food, Identity, And The Search For Dignitary Redress, Melissa D. Mortazavi
Melissa Mortazavi
No abstract provided.
A No-Fault Remedy For Legal Malpractice?, Melissa D. Mortazavi
A No-Fault Remedy For Legal Malpractice?, Melissa D. Mortazavi
Melissa Mortazavi
No abstract provided.
Tort As Democracy: Lessons From The Food Wars, Melissa D. Mortazavi
Tort As Democracy: Lessons From The Food Wars, Melissa D. Mortazavi
Melissa Mortazavi
This Article develops alternative emerging theories regarding the function of tort in American civil society. Often, scholars and policymakers evaluate the tort system in terms of compensation, loss allocation, and risk management. This focus overlooks an important modern function of tort; in the context of the modern administrative state, tort is a vital player in the democratic deliberative process. Tort suits bring forth new ideas, force fact-finding, and increase communication amongst public and private institutional actors to develop sound and legitimate law and policy.
Perhaps nowhere is this more obvious today than with the current boom of food litigation. Lawsuits …
A Place At The Table: What Food Litigation Tells Us About The Function Of Tort Law, Melissa Mortazavi
A Place At The Table: What Food Litigation Tells Us About The Function Of Tort Law, Melissa Mortazavi
Melissa Mortazavi
No abstract provided.