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Keeton Robert E

Venturing to do justice : Reforming private law, by - Cambridge Harvard University Press 1961 - 183p

Content:
I. Changing Processes of Law Reform;
1. Courts and Legislatures as Agencies of Abrupt Change;
2. Prospective Judicial Lawmaking;
3. Occasions for Prospective or Retroactive Overruling;
4. Evolutionary Revision of Legal Doctrine in Courts;
5. Juries and Trial Judges as Agencies of Law Reform and Administration;
6. Drafting and Interpreting Statutes;
II. Two Areas of Major Substantive Change;
7. Harms from Products and Services;
8. Harms from Traffic Accidents;
III. A Perspective on the Future;
9. Blending Old and New;
Appendix: Overruling Decisions of a Decade, 1958–1967;
Index

ISBN: 9780674497191

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Torts - Judicial Process - U S A 2. Law Reform

Dewey Class. No.: 347.000000 / KEE