Venturing to Do Justice : : Reforming Private Law /

Venturing to Do Justice : : Reforming Private Law / / Robert E. Keeton.

Since 1958 state courts of last resort in the United States have handed down a notably larger number of overruling decisions than ever before. This distinctive record raises many questions about how and by whom law reform should be effected. Mr. Keeton examines this issue in relation to private law...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Keeton, Robert E.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1969
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (183 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part One: Changing Processes of Law Reform
  • Chapter 1. Courts and Legislatures as Agencies of Abrupt Change
  • Chapter 2. Prospective Judicial Lawmaking
  • Chapter 3. Occasions for Prospective or Retroactive Overruling
  • Chapter 4. Evolutionary Revision of Legal Doctrine in Courts
  • Chapter 5. Juries and Trial Judges as Agencies of Law Reform and Administration
  • Chapter 6. Drafting and Interpreting Statutes
  • Part Two: Two Areas of Major Substantive Change
  • Chapter 7. Harms from Products and Services
  • Chapter 8. Harms from Traffic Accidents
  • Part Three: A Perspective on the Future
  • Chapter 9. Blending Old and New
  • Appendix. Index
  • Appendix. Overruling Decisions of a Decade 1958-1967
  • Index

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