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The Burdens Of All: Progressive Origins Of Accident Cost Socialization In Tort Law, 1870-1920, Joseph A. Ranney Jan 2021

The Burdens Of All: Progressive Origins Of Accident Cost Socialization In Tort Law, 1870-1920, Joseph A. Ranney

Marquette Law Review

Scholars who have studied the Progressive Movement’s contributions to

American law have paid little attention to its impact on tort law. This Article

helps fill the gap by examining the ways in which Progressivism shaped the rise

of employer liability law, workers compensation, and comparative negligence

during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The Article places

these reforms within the broader social history of American tort law—a

gradual, often tortuous transition from free-labor beliefs that the law should

encourage personal responsibility and economic growth above all else to a

realization that injuries are an unavoidable cost of economic modernization,

accompanied by …


Cardozo And The Civil Jury, Michael D. Green, Ashley Dimuzio Jan 2018

Cardozo And The Civil Jury, Michael D. Green, Ashley Dimuzio

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Development Of Common Law Defamation Privileges: From Communitarian Society To Market Society, M. M. Slaughter Nov 1992

The Development Of Common Law Defamation Privileges: From Communitarian Society To Market Society, M. M. Slaughter

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Manners, Metaprinciples, Metapolitics And Kennedy's Form And Substance, William W. Bratton Jr. Jan 1985

Manners, Metaprinciples, Metapolitics And Kennedy's Form And Substance, William W. Bratton Jr.

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Comment On The Critical Method In Legal History, Mark V. Tushnet Jan 1985

A Comment On The Critical Method In Legal History, Mark V. Tushnet

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Not-So-Critical Legal Studies, Stephen Diamond Jan 1985

Not-So-Critical Legal Studies, Stephen Diamond

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Press Privacy And Malice: Reflections On New York Times Co. V. Sullivan, Irving R. Kaufman Jan 1984

Press Privacy And Malice: Reflections On New York Times Co. V. Sullivan, Irving R. Kaufman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.