Tort law in America

Description

Widely regarded as a standard in the field, G. Edward White's Tort Law in America is a concise and accessible history of the way legal scholars and judges have conceptualized the subject of torts, the reasons that changes in certain rules and doctrines have ocurred, and the people who brought about these changes. White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomenon of professionalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since its emergence as a discrete field. He puts the intellectual history of this unique branch of law into the general picture of philosophy, sociology, and literature in what is not only a major work of legal scholarship but also a tour de force for anyone interested in American intellectual history.

First Sentence

The emergence of Torts as an independent branch of law came strikingly late in American legal history.

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Other Editions

• Tort law in America: an intellectual historyOxford University Press1980-01-01
• Tort Law in AmericaOxford University Press, USA1985-02-21
• Tort law in AmericaOxford University Press2003-01-01