American law in a global context : the basics

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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; PART I Common Law and Civil Law; ONE The Common Law; TWO The Civil Law; THREE The Language of Law: Common and Civil; FOUR Legal Reasoning; PART II Constitutional Identity; FIVE The Constitution as Code; SIX Judicial Review; SEVEN Federalism; EIGHT The Alternative Constitution; NINE Equality Prevails; TEN Freedom Fights Back; ELEVEN The Jury; TWELVE Due Process Ascendant; THIRTEEN Coordinating the States; FOURTEEN Multiple Common Laws? PART III The Theory of the Common Law: Liberalism and Its AlternativesFIFTEEN Feudalism in Land Law; SIXTEEN The Triumph of Equity; SEVENTEEN Contemporary Property; EIGHTEEN The Frontiers of Property; NINETEEN Contract as Law; TWENTY Contract as Justice; TWENTY-ONE Contractual Harm; TWENTY-TWO Foundations of Tort Law; TWENTY-THREE Economic Efficiency; TWENTY-FOUR From Contributory to Comparative Fault; TWENTY-FIVE Disputed Boundaries: Punitive Damages; TWENTY-SIX The American Civil Trial in Outline; PART IV Criminal Law: The Adversary System and Its Alternatives. TWENTY-SEVEN Where Would You Rather Be Tried?TWENTY-EIGHT The Fate of Bernhard Goetz; TWENTY-NINE Self-Defense: Domestic and International; SUMMARY The Right and the Reasonable; Appendices; APPENDIX ONE How to Read (and Brief) a Case; APPENDIX TWO Common Law Method; or, How to Do Things with Cases; APPENDIX THREE The Interpretation of Statutes; INDEX; Footnotes; Introfn; Ch01fn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Pt02fn; Ch05fn; Ch06fn; Ch07fn; Ch08fn; Ch09fn; Ch10fn; Ch11fn; Ch12fn; Ch13fn; Ch14fn; Ch15fn; Ch16fn; Ch17fn; Ch18fn; Ch19fn; Ch20fn; Ch21fn; Ch22fn; Ch23fn; Ch24fn; Ch25fn; Ch26fn; Pt04fn. Ch27fnCh28fn; Ch29fn; Sumfn; App01Fn; App02Fn; App03Fn