A century of change in personal injury law

California Law Review

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2405-

  Sugarman, Stephen D ^a  

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EID: 0042279872     PISSN: 00081221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3481219     Document Type: Review

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1. See generally G. EDWARD WHITE, TORT LAW IN AMERICA: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 18-19, 38-39, 60-62 (1980).
2. By narrowing ray Essay as I have, I do not mean to deny that business torts, for example, are an important area of the law - arguably one of rapidly growing importance today. So, too, tort law plainly deals with personal harms that involve other than physical injuries to the body - including harm to reputation which is protected by the law of defamation, the right to be left alone which is protected by privacy law, and so on. Furthermore, damage to tangible property is clearly a very important part of tort law's realm, and, of course, many bodily injuries are accompanied by damage to property as well - auto accidents being the exemplar. Nonetheless, because this is a brief essay with a 100 year