The Accidental Republic

副标题: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

ISBN: 9780674022614

出版社: Harvard Univ Pr

出版年: 2006-9

页数: 322

定价: $ 28.82

装帧: Pap

内容简介

* 2001 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

* 2005 James Willard Hurst Prize, Sponsored by the Law and Society Association

* 2005 William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Prize, American Society for Legal History

In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative insurance. Leading employers instituted welfare-capitalist accident relief funds. And social reformers advocated compulsory insurance such as workmen's compensation.

John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk. In this eclectic moment at the beginnings of the modern state, Witt describes American accident law as a contingent set of institutions that might plausibly have developed along a number of historical paths. In turn, he suggests, the making of American accident law is the story of the equally contingent remaking of our accidental republic.

作者简介

约翰·法比安·维特，哥伦比亚大学法学院法学与历史学教授，耶鲁大学法学博士、历史学博士。专业领域为美国法律史、侵权法。《事故共和国》是维特教授的第一本专著，出版后荣获多个图书奖项。

田雷，香港中文大学政治系博士候选人，哥伦比亚大学法学院中国法研究中心Edwards访问学人（2008年），译有《法院与宪法》（北京大学出版社）。

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