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Tort Law & How It's Tied to Our Culture is a socio-legal history of the norms, customs, and eventual private laws for wrongs, or Tort. Oliver Wendell Holmes described law as ""a grand anthropological document."" This can be said with even greater force of Tort Law, the most dynamic field within the Common Law. Whether in the form of an unwritten lesson of a myth or folktale, or rendered as written law, Tort Law reflects a culture's superego, a guide to what individuals might forego doing in the interest of a community's safety, dignity and prosperity. The work provides an entertaining and scholarly tour of Tort Law from its beginnings in the unwritten oral traditions of folktale and myth, through the ancient law codes of Mesopotamia, the cohering work of the Greeks, and the codifications of the Romans and later Gothic groups, to early religious recitations of behavioral ethics. Separate treatment is afforded the vital role of the Common Law in an increasingly statutory age, exemplary or punitive damages and the congruence between the application of tort-type remedies in the English-speaking Common Law nations and the significant number of Civil Code nations applying law more directly descended from Roman Law and the Napoleonic Code.

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The KIRKUS REVIEW of TORT LAW: ""[Madden's] approach is impressively expansive[.] The author examines a breathtaking swath of intellectual territory, ... and offers delightfully unconventional views.... An illuminating and insightful work about Tort Law."" US REVIEW OF BOOKS lists TORT LAW as RECOMMENDED, describing it as a ""highly informative work"", concluding: ""Well-researched and engaging, Madden's work is a fascinating overview for laypeople and professionals alike."" John J. Cerullo, Professor of History Emeritus, University of New Hampshire describes the book's story of Tort Law's contributions to ""the magisterial human experiment in moderation, fairness, efficiency, equality, and justice in social groupings"" as readers of this ""well-researched, absorbing and illuminating book will agree.""

"The KIRKUS REVIEW of TORT LAW: ""[Madden's] approach is impressively expansive[.] The author examines a breathtaking swath of intellectual territory, ... and offers delightfully unconventional views.... An illuminating and insightful work about Tort Law."" US REVIEW OF BOOKS lists TORT LAW as RECOMMENDED, describing it as a ""highly informative work"", concluding: ""Well-researched and engaging, Madden's work is a fascinating overview for laypeople and professionals alike."" John J. Cerullo, Professor of History Emeritus, University of New Hampshire describes the book's story of Tort Law's contributions to ""the magisterial human experiment in moderation, fairness, efficiency, equality, and justice in social groupings"" as readers of this ""well-researched, absorbing and illuminating book will agree."""

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