Social Construction of Tort Law Tort Tales

The Social Construction of Tort Law/ Tort Tales
Paper details:

1) How do tort reformers and the news media socially construct tort litigation

2) How did they construct the McDonalds hot coffee case (Liebeck v.McDonald’s Restaurants 1995)?

3) What does this tell us about the social construction of legal knowledge?

Reading material required:

Answers can also include internet research.

Calavita Chap. 3, “Law in the Everyday, Everywhere,” pp. 30-45 and paragraph about McCann and Haltom on p. 49

Michael McCann, William Haltom, and Anne Bloom,“Java Jive: Genealogy of a Juridical Icon,” University of Miami Law Review.