Tort Law and How It's Tied to Our Culture

Esq M Stuart Madden

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Urlink Print & Media, LLC
27 October 2022

Folklore, myths & legends; Common law; Torts Law

"Tort Law & How It's Tied to Our Culture is a socio-legal history of the norms, customs, and eventual private laws for wrongs, or Tort. Oliver Wendel Holmes described law as ""a grand anthropological document."" This can be said with even greater force of Tort Law, the most dynamic field within the Common Law. Whether in the form of an unwritten lesson of a myth or folktales, or rendered as written law, Tort Law reflects a culture's superego, a guide to what individuals might forego doing in the interest of a community's safety, dignity and prosperity. The work provides an entertaining and scholarly tour of Tort Law from its beginnings in the unwritten oral traditions of folktale and myth, through the ancient law codes of Mesopotamia and the cohering work of the Greeks and the codifications of the Romans and later Gothic groups, to early religious recitations of behavioral ethics. Separate treatment is afforded the vital role of the Common Law in an increasingly statutory age, exemplary or punitive damages, and the congruence between the application of tort-type remedies in the English-speaking Common Law nations and the significant number of Civil Code nations applying law more directly descended from Roman Law and the Napoleonic Code."

By: Esq M Stuart Madden
Imprint: Urlink Print & Media, LLC
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781684862955
ISBN 10: 1684862957
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 27 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Past Distinguished Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law. B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1971); M.A. (History) 1972, London School of Economics and Political Science; J.D. (1976), Georgetown University Law Center.