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G. Edward White, Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 283.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

John G. Fleming
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American Bar Foundation Research Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Summer 1980 , pp. 614 - 617
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1980 

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2. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1978.Google Scholar

3. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 402A (1966 & Cum. Supp. 1978).Google Scholar

4. Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928).Google Scholar

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9. White makes only passing reference to “compensation” as his preferred method of dealing with “routine” cases in the future (p. 235).Google Scholar

10. 26 Cal. 3d 588, 607 P.2d 924, 163 Cal. Rptr. 132 (1980).Google Scholar

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15. Cf. Steven F. Williams's review of The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860, by Morton Horwitz (1977), in 25 U.C.L.A.L. Rev. 1187 (1978).Google Scholar