Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle Over Litigation in American Society

by Thomas F. Burke

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520243234
• ISBN13: 9780520243231
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"