Law and community : the case of torts / Robert F. Cochran and Robert M. Ackerman.

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.

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Torts -- United States.

Sociological Jurisprudence.

Introduction --1. Intermediate communities: for good and ill --2. Tort law and intermediate communities: an overview --3. An intermediate communitarian perspective on tort law --4. Torts and families --5. Religious congregations --6. Torts and the larger community: the limits of legal obligation --7. Preserving the larger community (or how to avoid killing the goose that laid the golden egg) --8. Damages, the community, and 9/11 --9. Toward a communitarian tort system --10. Communitarian principles and law.

Includes index.

0742522008

x, 264 p.