TY - BOOK ID - 6992689 TI - Exploring tort law PY - 2005 SN - 0521616808 052185136X 1107154154 9786611108625 0511344953 0511344597 0511568193 0511610637 1281108626 0511344201 0511345291 9780521616805 9780511345296 9780511344596 9780511610639 9780521851367 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Torts KW - Torts. KW - Tort and negligence KW - United States KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Civil wrongs KW - Delicts KW - Injuries (Law) KW - Quasi delicts KW - Wrongful acts KW - Accident law KW - Actions and defenses KW - Liability (Law) KW - Obligations (Law) KW - Negligence KW - Reasonable care (Law) KW - Torts - United States. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6992689 AB - Independent of criminal or contract law, Tort law provides individuals and groups with redress for injury to every dimension of life from physical injury, to property damage, to personal insult. Over past decades no body of law within the civil justice system has experienced greater ferment than the law of Torts. In the US, state courts, federal courts, and the Supreme Court have all been active in the development of Tort policy. This edited collection comprises scholarship from many of today's most influential contributors regarding Torts and Compensation Systems scholarship. Topics include an investigation of the original stimuli for tort-type norms from ancient times onwards, a provocative analysis of five tort landmarks from MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. to United States v. Carroll Towing Co, and a frank assessment of the limitations of torts within broader compensation systems goals. ER -