Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- 1. Adversarial legalism: contours, consequences, causes: The concept of adversarial legalism -- The two faces of adversarial legalism -- The political construction of adversarial legalism -- 2. Criminal justice: Adversarial legalism and American criminal justice -- Deciding criminal cases -- 3. Civil justice: Adversarial legalism and civil justice -- The tort law system -- 4. Public law: social justice and regulation: Adversarial legalism and the welfare state -- Adversarial legalism and the regulatory state -- Economic development, environmental protection, and adversarial legalism -- Afterword: adversarial legalism in the twenty-first century.
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