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Self-Help: Extrajudicial Rights, Privileges And Remedies In Contemporary American Society, Douglas I. Brandon, Melinda L. Cooper, Jeremy H. Greshin, Alvin L. Harris, James M. Head, Jr., Keith R. Jacques, Lea Wiggins
Self-Help: Extrajudicial Rights, Privileges And Remedies In Contemporary American Society, Douglas I. Brandon, Melinda L. Cooper, Jeremy H. Greshin, Alvin L. Harris, James M. Head, Jr., Keith R. Jacques, Lea Wiggins
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Special Project examines the myriad forms of self-help currently available to persons in American society. It groups and discusses notable self-help rights, privileges, and remedies under topical classifications that parallel traditional jurisprudential categories. Parts H through VI of the Special Project sketch the legally fashioned contours and explore the legal, social, and political consequences of self-help methods in tort law, criminal law and law enforcement, commercial transactions, landlord-tenant relations,and family law matters. Part VII explores the attorney's role in the development and implementation of curative self-help procedures such as mediation. Special Project concludes by examining the function, mechanisms, and …