Author: William AndrewsPublisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981029
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A collection of essays on the oddities of the law and lawyers
Legal Lore
Author: William AndrewsPublisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981029
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A collection of essays on the oddities of the law and lawyers
Legal Lore: Curiosities of Law and Lawyers
Author: VariousPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465518614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Distorting the Law
Author: William HaltomPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226314693
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
ABA Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
The American Law Review
Author: The Law
Author: Fairy Tales and Society
Author: Ruth B. BottigheimerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812212940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, fairy tales function as a paradigm both for understanding society and for developing individual behavior and personality. A few of the topics covered in this volume: oral narration in contemporary society; madness and cure in the 1001 Nights; the female voice in folklore and fairy tale; change in narrative form; tests, tasks, and trials in the Grimms' fairy tales; and folklorists as agents of nationalism. The subject of methodology is discussed by Torborg Lundell, Stven Swann Jones, Hans-Jorg Uther, and Anna Tavis.
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