1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001122620403321

Autore

Demtroder, Wolfgang <1931- >

Titolo

Laser Spectroscopy : Basic concepts and instrumentation / Wolfgang Demtroder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.] : Springer-Verlag, 1996

ISBN

3-540-57171-X

Edizione

[2nd enlarged ed.]

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

27A-055.001

27A-055.002

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With 644 Figures and 91 Problems.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005730590403321

Autore

Jud, Jakob <1882-1952>

Titolo

Beton, bet, beter / J. Jud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig : Libr. Dror : Max Niehans, 1939

Paris

Descrizione fisica

P. 194-210 ; 28 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

GLOTT. A I e 26 (12)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Estratto da MTlanges A. Duraffour romanica Helvetica, vol 14, 1939

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495965403321

Autore

Burke Thomas F.

Titolo

Lawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights : the battle over litigation in American society / / Thomas F. Burke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-520-93837-2

1-59734-706-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

California Series in Law, Politics, and Society ; ; 2

Disciplina

347.73

Soggetti

Justice, Administration of - United States

Actions and defenses - United States

Lawyers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE BATTLE OVER LITIGATION -- CHAPTER 2. THE CREATION OF A LITIGIOUS POLICY -- CHAPTER 3. A FAILED ANTILITIGATION EFFORT -- CHAPTER 4. A SHOT OF ANTILITIGATION REFORM -- CHAPTER 5. UNDERSTANDING THE LITIGATION DEBATE -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a nation not of litigious citizens, but of litigious policies-laws that promote the use of litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies. This book is a cogent account of how such policies have come to shape public life and everyday practices in the United States. As litigious policies have proliferated, so have struggles to limit litigation-and these struggles offer insight into the nation's court-centered public policy style. Burke focuses on three cases: the effort to block the Americans with Disabilities Act; an attempt to reduce accident litigation by creating a no-fault auto insurance system in California; and the enactment of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. These cases suggest that litigious policies are deeply rooted in the American constitutional tradition. Burke shows how the diffuse, divided structure of American government, together with the anti-statist ethos of American political culture, creates incentives for political actors to use the courts to address their concerns. The first clear and comprehensive account of the national politics of litigation, his work provides a new way to understand and address the "litigiousness" of American society.