Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White both hold the position of David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and have written twenty-two award-winning books between them, including most recently The Forms and Functions of Tort Law and Law in American History: Volume Three, 1920-2000, respectively.

This timely, lucid, and compelling book offers fresh and insightful treatments of important topics in tort law and law more generally, demonstrating at a granular level the phenomenon of law as a semi-autonomous institution." - John C.P. Goldberg, Harvard Law School, coauthor of Recognizing Wrongs"Abraham and White present as powerful an argument as possible for a distinctively lawyers’ logic in the management of social change. This book makes readers stop and think anew about the role of law in a changing world and will appeal to anyone interested in figuring out a path out of our present predicaments. An important intervention in the field." - John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, author of The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Epistemology of the Civil Trial and the Rise of Modern Tort Liability2. Conceptualizing Tort Law—the Continuous (and Continuing) Struggle3. The Problem of the Dignitary Torts4. The First Amendment and the Constitutionalization of Tort Liability5. Torts without Names, New Torts, and the Future of Liability for Intangible HarmConclusionNotesIndex

Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White both hold the position of David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and have written twenty-two award-winning books between them, including most recently The Forms and Functions of Tort Law and Law in American History: Volume Three, 1920-2000, respectively.

This timely, lucid, and compelling book offers fresh and insightful treatments of important topics in tort law and law more generally, demonstrating at a granular level the phenomenon of law as a semi-autonomous institution." - John C.P. Goldberg, Harvard Law School, coauthor of Recognizing Wrongs"Abraham and White present as powerful an argument as possible for a distinctively lawyers’ logic in the management of social change. This book makes readers stop and think anew about the role of law in a changing world and will appeal to anyone interested in figuring out a path out of our present predicaments. An important intervention in the field." - John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, author of The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Epistemology of the Civil Trial and the Rise of Modern Tort Liability2. Conceptualizing Tort Law—the Continuous (and Continuing) Struggle3. The Problem of the Dignitary Torts4. The First Amendment and the Constitutionalization of Tort Liability5. Torts without Names, New Torts, and the Future of Liability for Intangible HarmConclusionNotesIndex

Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White both hold the position of David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and have written twenty-two award-winning books between them, including most recently The Forms and Functions of Tort Law and Law in American History: Volume Three, 1920-2000, respectively.

This timely, lucid, and compelling book offers fresh and insightful treatments of important topics in tort law and law more generally, demonstrating at a granular level the phenomenon of law as a semi-autonomous institution." - John C.P. Goldberg, Harvard Law School, coauthor of Recognizing Wrongs"Abraham and White present as powerful an argument as possible for a distinctively lawyers’ logic in the management of social change. This book makes readers stop and think anew about the role of law in a changing world and will appeal to anyone interested in figuring out a path out of our present predicaments. An important intervention in the field." - John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, author of The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The Epistemology of the Civil Trial and the Rise of Modern Tort Liability2. Conceptualizing Tort Law—the Continuous (and Continuing) Struggle3. The Problem of the Dignitary Torts4. The First Amendment and the Constitutionalization of Tort Liability5. Torts without Names, New Torts, and the Future of Liability for Intangible HarmConclusionNotesIndex