Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:42:48 -0500

From: Geoff McLay

Subject: Long Judgments

Do we need a bit of comparative perspective?

I guess the question I have as someone who has been teaching a US first year torts for the first time is why US tort decisions appear a lot shorter - is there a greater consensus as to the basics (perhaps because of the restatement process?), a different legal method, or an American avoidance of addressing the big duty issues that we so delight in?

Second are tort decisions actually longer than other major decisions, or are we all concerned about just a small fraction of the tort output. Is tort law just in a bad phase? By rough assumption is that the High Court of Australia is pretty long on most things?

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:43 AM
To: Tariq Baloch
Subject: Re: ODG: Long Judgments

I suspect, but don't know, that it was a reference to this book review of English Private Law in the Jersey Law Review.

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