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Litigation Nation
Peter Charles Hoffer
其他書名
A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America
出版
Rowman & Littlefield
, 2019-09-20
主題
History / Social History
History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
History / United States / 19th Century
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN
1538116588
9781538116586
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MkKdDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America’s most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary people to illustrate how the civil courts have been a battlefront to contest the boundaries of permissible personal conduct in times of social and political change. Using representative case studies from each period—from defamation suits in seventeenth-century America to recent civil rights and gender discrimination lawsuits, Hoffer’s concise and accessible history shows how litigation reflects the lives and values of ordinary Americans.