Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction. Tort Law as Cultural Practice 1
6. Part I. On Legal Culture and Cultural Analysis of Tort Law
7. Chapter One. Law, Liability, and Culture 21
8. Chapter Two. Torts and Notions of Community 39
9. Part II. Different Approaches to Cultural Analysis of Tort Law
10. Chapter Three. India’s Tort Deficit 47
11. Chapter Four. Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary 66
12. Chapter Five. Juries as Conduits for Culture? 80
13. Chapter Six. Framing Fast-Food Litigation 97
14. Part III. Injury and Identity: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Tort Law
15. Chapter Seven. Discrimination and Outrage 119
16. Chapter Eight. Regulating Middlesex 137
17. Chapter Nine. Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900–1949 156
18. Part IV. Issues of Risk and Responsibility
19. Chapter Ten. The Role of Tort Lawsuits in Reconstructing the Issue of Police Abuse in the United Kingdom 175
20. Chapter Eleven. Lawyers and Solicitors Separated by a Common Legal System 192
21. Chapter Twelve. Suing Doctors in Japan 211
22. Chapter Thirteen. The Role of the Judiciary in Asbestos Injury Compensation in Japan 233
23. Part V. Causation, Duty, and Obligation
24. Chapter Fourteen. Discourses of Causation in Injury Cases 251
25. Chapter Fifteen. “Nobody Broke It, It Just Broke” 269
26. Chapter Sixteen. The Cultural Agenda of Tort Litigation 287
27. Acknowledgments 309
28. Notes 311
29. Bibliography 329
30. Cases, Statutes, and Agency Reports 361
31. Index 365