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A Nation of Adversaries

How the Litigation Explosion Is Reshaping America

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 1-14
  3. America’s Litigation Obsession

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 15-23
  4. Pioneering on the Litigation Frontier

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 25-41
  5. The Breeding of an Adversarial Culture

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 59-87
  6. A Litigation Democracy

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 89-102
  7. An Explosive Partnership: Therapists and Lawyers

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 125-138
  8. An Inadequate Social Regulator

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 139-160
  9. A Casualty of the Litigation Explosion

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 161-169
  10. False Prophets

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 171-187
  11. Conclusion

    • Patrick M. Garry
    Pages 189-197
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 199-218

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Nation of Adversaries

  • Book Subtitle: How the Litigation Explosion Is Reshaping America

  • Authors: Patrick M. Garry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6604-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45564-3Published: 01 January 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-6604-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 218

  • Topics: Constitutional Law, Political Science, Sociology, general

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