@article{1480311,
      recid = {1480311},
      author = {Chamallas, Martha,  and Wriggins, Jennifer B., },
      title = {The Measure of Injury : Race, Gender, and Tort Law /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Tort law is the body of law governing negligence,  intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which  civil actions can be brought. The conventional wisdom is  that the rules, concepts, and structures of tort law are  neutral and unbiased, free of considerations of gender and  race.In The Measure of Injury, Martha Chamallas and  Jennifer Wriggins prove that tort law is anything but  gender and race neutral. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of  case law ranging from the Jim Crow South to the 9/11 Victim  Compensation Fund, the authors demonstrate that women and  minorities have been under-compensated in tort law and that  traditional biases have resurfaced in updated forms to  perpetuate patterns of disparate recovery based on race and  gender. Grappling with tort theory, the intricacies of  legal doctrine and the practical effects of legal rules,  The Measure of Injury is a unique treatise on torts that  uncovers the public and cultural dimensions of this  always-controversial domain of private law.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480311},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814716762.001.0001},
}