Adversarial Legalism : : The American Way of Law, Second Edition / / Robert A. Kagan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Kagan, Robert A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits. American laws are generally more complicated and prescriptive, adjudication more costly, penalties more severe. Here, Kagan examines the origins and consequences of this system.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- I. ADVERSARIAL LEGALISM: Contours, Consequences, Causes -- 1. The Concept of Adversarial Legalism -- 2. The Two Faces of Adversarial Legalism -- 3. The Political Construction of Adversarial Legalism -- II. CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 4. Adversarial Legalism and American Criminal Justice -- 5. Deciding Criminal Cases -- III. CIVIL JUSTICE -- 6. Adversarial Legalism and Civil Justice -- 7. The Tort Law System -- IV. PUBLIC LAW: Social Justice and Regulation -- 8. Adversarial Legalism and the Welfare -- 9. Adversarial Legalism and the Regulatory State -- 10. Economic Development, Environmental Protection, and Adversarial Legalism -- Afterword: Adversarial Legalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index