Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis - Couverture souple

Livre 5 sur 33: Chicago Series in Law and Society

Haltom, William; McCann, Michael

 
9780226314648: Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
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ISBN 10 : 0226314642 ISBN 13 : 9780226314648
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

William Haltom is professor in the Department of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound and the author of Reporting on the Courts.

Michael McCann is the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of several books, most recently the award-winning Rights at Work.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226314642
ISBN 13 
9780226314648
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
359
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780226314631: Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis

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ISBN 10 :  0226314634 ISBN 13 :  9780226314631
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004
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