Litigation Nation: A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538116579)

Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America's most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary people to illustrate how the civil courts have been a battlefront to contest the boundaries of permissible personal conduct in times of social and political change. Using representative case studies from each period--from defamation suits in seventeenth-century America to recent civil rights and gender discrimination lawsuits, Hoffer's concise and accessible history shows how litigation reflects the lives and values of ordinary Americans.

Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
ISBN-10: 153811657X
ISBN-13: 9781538116579
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2019
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019
Library Journal 07/19/2019 pg. 1
Choice 02/01/2020