{"title":"Text versus Context: The Failure of the Unitary Law of Contract Interpretation","authors":"R. Scott","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120965323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore","authors":"Stephen M. Bainbridge","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123011456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawyers as Spam: Congressional Capture Explains Why U.S. Lawyers Exceed the Optimum","authors":"S. Magee","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"13 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120894259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overtaking","authors":"Robert D. Cooter, A. Edlin","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126705280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legacy of Progressive Thought: Decline, Not Death, by a Thousand Cuts","authors":"R. Epstein","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-021","url":null,"abstract":"My task in this essay is to sum up the causes of the American Illness, which by all accounts seems to engulf our nation today .1 Exactly when this illness began is a matter of genuine controversy. It seems clear that American power and prestige peaked at the end of World War II, only to follow an erratic downward course since that time. It is difficult to identify any single cause that accounts for that long-term trend in either domestic or foreign affairs. It is equally difficult to identify any one person who bears unique responsibility for the current condition. But if I had to name one constellation of ideas","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"2000 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129557250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?","authors":"W. Viscusi","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115073888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2. An Exceptional Nation?","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128275275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tamer Tort Law: The Canada- U.S. Divide","authors":"M. Trebilcock, Paul-Erik Veel","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-012","url":null,"abstract":"Tort law in its traditional forms has been under attack from a variety of perspectives for several decades. On the one hand, enormous damage awards are said to drive up the costs of engaging in certain socially useful activities—such as providing certain types of medical care or innovative products—to the point that those activities are driven out the market. On the other hand, critics charge that the tort system does a poor job of providing compensation to the vast majority of people who have suffered injuries. As such, the tort system is often characterized as an unjust lottery: a small number of plaintiffs receive unjustifiably large awards for nonpecuniary losses and punitive damages, while many others are denied even a modicum of compensation to pay for necessary medical care. Our purpose in this article is not to contribute to the expansive empirical literature on whether or to what extent there is truly a “crisis” in tort law, 1 nor is it to argue in favor of or","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115637650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127513786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1. The Rule of Law in America","authors":"F. Buckley","doi":"10.12987/9780300195071-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300195071-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":304033,"journal":{"name":"The American Illness","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121232341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}