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Law and social movements
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ISBN: 0754624978 Year: 2006 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

Law and Social Movements
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ISBN: 9781315091983 9781351560726 9780754624974 Year: 2016 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge

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Artist beware: the hazards in working with all art and craft materials and the precautions every artist and craftsperson should take
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ISBN: 9781592285921 Year: 2005 Publisher: Guilford, Conn. Lyons Press

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Rights at work : pay equity reform and the politics of legal mobilization
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ISBN: 0226555712 0226555720 9780226555720 9780226555713 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,


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Taking reform seriously: perspectives on public interest liberalism
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ISBN: 0801419522 Year: 1986 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University

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The Oxford handbook of American sports law
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ISBN: 9780190465964 9780190465957 0190465956 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Distorting the law
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ISBN: 1282426583 0226314693 9786612426582 9780226314693 9780226314631 0226314634 9780226314648 0226314642 9781282426580 6612426586 0226314634 9780226314631 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the mass media and reform proponents. Distorting the Law lays bare how media coverage has sensationalized lawsuits and sympathetically portrayed corporate interests, supporting big business and reinforcing negative stereotypes of law practices. Based on extensive interviews, nearly two decades of newspaper coverage, and in-depth studies of the McDonald's coffee case and tobacco litigation, Distorting the Law offers a compelling analysis of the presumed litigation crisis, the campaign for tort law reform, and the crucial role the media play in this process.


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Health & safety for museum professionals
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ISBN: 9780984160495 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

Fault lines
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ISBN: 9780804771207 0804771200 9780804756136 9780804756143 0804756139 0804756147 Year: 2009 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Law Books

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Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, assignment of responsibility, compensation, valuation, and obligation. Examining tort law as a cultural phenomenon and a form of cultural practice, this work makes explicit comparisons of tort law across space and time, looking at the United States, Europe, and Asia in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It draws on theories and methods from law, sociology, political science, and anthropology to offer a truly interdisciplinary, pathbreaking view. Ultimately, tort law, the authors show, nests within a larger web of relationships and shared discursive conventions that organize social life.

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