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Dispatches From The Tort Wars, Anthony J. Sebok May 2007

Dispatches From The Tort Wars, Anthony J. Sebok

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It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that, as a political matter, the modern tort reform movement has been very successful. This essay reviews three books that either rebut the tort reform movement's central theses or analyze the strategies that allowed the movement to prevail. I discuss Tom Baker's The Medical Malpractice Myth, Herbert Kritzer's Risks, Reputations, and Rewards: Contingency Fee Legal Practice in the United States, and William Haltom & Michael McCann's Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis. Although each book has a very different focus from the other two, I argue that a common theme …


An Anti-Authoritarian Constitution? Four Notes, Patrick O. Gudridge Jan 2007

An Anti-Authoritarian Constitution? Four Notes, Patrick O. Gudridge

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Guantanamo Forever: United States Sovereignty And The Unending State Of Exception, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2007

Guantanamo Forever: United States Sovereignty And The Unending State Of Exception, Mary Anne Franks

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