American law in a global context : the basics / George P. Fletcher and Steve Sheppard.

Author
Fletcher, George P. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description
1 online resource (624 p.)

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Series
Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]
Summary note
An introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Using a comparative approach, the authors introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure.
Notes
Includes index.
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Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
Contents
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: Common Law and Civil Law
  • ONE: The Common Law
  • TWO: The Civil Law
  • THREE: The Language of Law: Common and Civil
  • FOUR: Legal Reasoning
  • PART II: Constitutional Identity
  • FIVE: The Constitution as Code
  • SIX: Judicial Review
  • SEVEN: Federalism
  • EIGHT: The Alternative Constitution
  • NINE: Equality Prevails
  • TEN: Freedom Fights Back
  • ELEVEN: The Jury
  • TWELVE: Due Process Ascendant
  • THIRTEEN: Coordinating the States
  • FOURTEEN: Multiple Common Laws?
  • PART III: The Theory of the Common Law: Liberalism and Its Alternatives
  • FIFTEEN: Feudalism in Land Law
  • SIXTEEN: The Triumph of Equity
  • SEVENTEEN: Contemporary Property
  • EIGHTEEN: The Frontiers of Property
  • NINETEEN: Contract as Law
  • TWENTY: Contract as Justice
  • TWENTY-ONE: Contractual Harm
  • TWENTY-TWO: Foundations of Tort Law
  • TWENTY-THREE: Economic Efficiency
  • TWENTY-FOUR: From Contributory to Comparative Fault
  • TWENTY-FIVE: Disputed Boundaries: Punitive Damages
  • TWENTY-SIX: The American Civil Trial in Outline
  • PART IV: Criminal Law: The Adversary System and Its Alternatives
  • TWENTY-SEVEN: Where Would You Rather Be Tried?
  • TWENTY-EIGHT: The Fate of Bernhard Goetz
  • TWENTY-NINE: Self-Defense: Domestic and International
  • SUMMARY: The Right and the Reasonable
  • Appendices
  • APPENDIX ONE: How to Read (and Brief) a Case
  • APPENDIX TWO: Common Law Method
  • or, How to Do Things with Cases
  • APPENDIX THREE: The Interpretation of Statutes
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
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ISBN
  • 0-19-771828-0
  • 1-280-53409-5
  • 0-19-972929-8
  • 1-4337-0040-9
OCLC
  • 1406783774
  • 53987093
Doi
  • 10.1093/oso/9780195167221.001.0001
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