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Dismantling American common law : liberty and justice in our transformed courts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Kyle, 1977-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]
Subjects:
Common law > United States.
Jury > United States.
Judicial process > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Defining the common law and surveying the literature
  • Debating the common law in America
  • An evaluation of the factors that have led to the dismantling
  • The decline in the use of juries
  • Equity, sovereign immunity, and consequences
  • Montesquieu as the intellectual forerunner.