Rethinking the Landscape of Tort Reform: Legislative Inertia and Court-Based Tort Reform in the Case of Asbestos
Rethinking the Landscape of Tort Reform: Legislative Inertia and Court-Based Tort Reform in the Case of Asbestos
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重新思考侵权改革的格局：石棉案件中的立法惰性和基于法院的侵权改革
DOI：
10.1080/0098261x.2007.10767837
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Jeb Barnes
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作者：
Jeb Barnes
从表面上看，石棉案似乎是在美国实施重大侵权改革的障碍的典型例子，即使法官一再要求立法救济，侵权法显然是昂贵的和不一致的。然而，仔细观察就会发现，自20世纪80年代初以来，法官和律师一直在实施“以法院为基础的侵权改革”：创造性地利用现有的规则和程序来改变诉讼过程。理解这种制度能力，反过来，拓宽了美国侵权改革的景观在两个方面的变化的可能性和变化的政治主导概念。
On its face, the asbestos case seems a quintessential example of the obstacles to enacting major tort reform in the United States, even when judges repeatedly ask for legislative relief and tort law is demonstrably costly and inconsistent. However, a closer look reveals that, since the early 1980s, judges and lawyers have been implementing “court-based tort reform”: the creative use of existing rules and procedures to alter the litigation process. Understanding this institutional capacity, in turn, broadens leading conceptions of the landscape of American tort reform in terms of both the possibilities for change and the politics of change.