POSC 130g Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: United States Tort Law, Industrial Revolution
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Tort/ insurance > cultural constraints and the development of policy through courts. Environmental law > the interaction btwn institutional constraints and policy complexity. Employment discrimination > putting the pieces together the goal = generate hypotheses about the nature of constraints on judicial policy-making in the united states how much do doctrinal, institutional, and cultural constraints effect decisions (ccv vs. The problem with technology new technology but hidden defects, policy challenge: inevitable side effects, provide safeguards social dislocation w/o chilling innovation improve quality of life, amplified given efficiency efficiency, capacities of distribution networks. Tort law: a branch of civil law, which deals with wrongful acts involving injuries to person, property or reputation (includes damages from a breach of contract) Insurance: concerns a contract in which one party agrees to cover another against a predefined category of risks in exchange for a premium. Story of the rise of adversarial legalism.
