American law in a global context : the basics

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American law in a global context : the basics

George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard

Oxford University Press, 2025

2nd edition

  • : paperback

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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The common law
  • Legal reasoning and common-law reasoning
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Multiple common laws?
  • Property : the common law as an echo of history
  • The common law, property, and the flexibility of equity
  • Foundations of tort law
  • From contributory to comparative fault
  • Contract as law
  • Contractual harm : breach of contract and harm
  • Property and public power
  • The frontiers of property
  • Economic efficiency
  • Judicial review
  • Federalism
  • Judicial federalism
  • The meanings of equality
  • Religious freedom
  • Free speech
  • Substantive due process
  • Due process and incorporation
  • The American criminal process, part I
  • The American criminal process, part II
  • The American criminal process, part III
  • Criminal law : the example of self-defense

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