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

Kyle Scott
"Dismantling American Common Law: Liberty and Justice in Our Transformed Courts tracks the development of American common law through historical and quantitative analysis and provides a philosophical inquiry of its founding. Author Kyle Scott seeks to reclaim this lost tradition of common law, which was vital as a legitimizing force and consensus-building mechanism at the American founding, and will grow in importance for newly democratizing nations around the world."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, ©2007
xv, 169 pages ; 24 cm
9780739123768, 0739123769
170058159
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