Venturing to Do Justice: Reforming Private Law

by Robert E. Keeton

Since 1958 state courts of last resort in the United States have handed down a notably larger number of overruling decisions than ever before. This distinctive record raises many questions about how and by whom law reform should be effected. Mr. Keeton examines this issue in relation to private law the branch of law concerned with the rights and duties of private individuals toward each other, enforceable through civil proceedings. In the first part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067449718X
• ISBN13: 9780674497184
• Release Date: February 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"