LEADER 03718nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910786720603321 005 20230803025935.0 010 $a0-300-19507-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300195071 035 $a(CKB)2670000000353118 035 $a(EBL)3421232 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871088 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12426518 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871088 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819943 035 $a(PQKB)10705555 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165642 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421232 035 $a(DE-B1597)486138 035 $a(OCoLC)841809562 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300195071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421232 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10694580 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485905 035 $a(OCoLC)923603825 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000353118 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAmerican illness$b[electronic resource] $eessays on the rule of law /$fedited by F.H. Buckley 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-17521-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. The Rule of Law in America --$t2. An Exceptional Nation? --$tAre Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence --$tLawyers as Spam: Congressional Capture Explains Why U.S. Lawyers Exceed the Optimum --$tRegulation and Litigation: Complements or Substitutes? --$tDoes Product Liability Law Make Us Safer? --$tThe American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure --$tThe Proportionality Principle and the Amount in Controversy --$tThe Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure --$tDoes Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World? --$tA Tamer Tort Law: The Canada- U.S. Divide --$tThe Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses --$tRegulation, Taxation, and Litigation --$tAn English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law --$tText versus Context: The Failure of the Unitary Law of Contract Interpretation --$tExit and the American Illness --$tThe Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law --$tHow American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore --$tCorporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality --$tThe Legacy of Progressive Thought: Decline, Not Death, by a Thousand Cuts --$tOvertaking --$tThe Rule of Law and China --$tReversing --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThis provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions between economics and the law-in such areas as corruption, business regulation, and federalism-and explains how our system works differently from the one in most countries, with contradictory and hard to understand business regulations, tort laws that vary from state to state, and surprising judicial interpretations of clearly written contracts. This imposes far heavier litigation costs on American companies and hampers economic growth. 606 $aLaw$zUnited States 606 $aAmerican essays 615 0$aLaw 615 0$aAmerican essays. 676 $a340.11 701 $aBuckley$b F. H$01545179 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786720603321 996 $aAmerican illness$93799982 997 $aUNINA