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标题：The Impact of the Civil Jury on American Tort Law
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作者：Green, Michael D.
期刊名称：Pepperdine Law Review
印刷版ISSN：0092-430X
电子版ISSN：2327-0268
出版年度：2011
卷号：38
期号：2
页码：8
出版社：Pepperdine University
摘要：This article, a contribution to a symposium on the what American tort law can contribute to the rest of the world expresses skepticism that a considerable swath of U.S. tort law would be of interest to the rest of the world. The thesis is that American tort law has been shaped by the existence of the civil jury, unique to the U.S, and areas of domestic tort law so influenced have no utility internationally. The article catalogues many such areas and discusses several of them.
关键词：Negligence; Comparative Law; Products Liability; Causation; Civil Procedure; Duty of Care; Foreseeability; Torts