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Distributive Justice through Tort (and Why Sociolegal Scholars Should Care)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Anita Bernstein
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Abstract

Drawing on two books central to an emerging sociolegal literature about tort—Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice, a collection edited by David M. Engel and Michael McCann, and Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice, a monograph by Tsachi Keren‐Paz—this essay argues that tort law in the United States redistributes wealth in ways that ought to trouble sociolegal scholars and enlist their reformist energy. Read together, the two volumes offer considerable description and critique of a distributive injustice, and lead to important proposals for change.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , Fall 2010 , pp. 1099 - 1135
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2010 

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