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  1. Trusting nothing to providence : a history of Wisconsin's legal system

    Ranney, Joseph A., 1952-
    Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Law School, Continuing Education and Outreach, c1999.

  2. The burdens of all : a social history of American tort law

    Ranney, Joseph A., 1952-
    Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2022]

    "Tort law, the law of how the costs of accidents and other harms should be allocated, is part of America's larger story of social conflict and progress. This book recounts tort law's place in that story. The book describes the law's struggle to move from nineteenth-century individualism, which required accident victims to shift for themselves and protected corporations, to the view that accidents are an inevitable part of modern industrial society and must be paid for by society as a whole. Also, the book paints pictures of the judges and social reformers who have shaped tort law's course; the current struggle between individualism and socialization; and the historical struggle over the proper balance of power between judges and juries in tort cases"--

  3. Wisconsin and the shaping of American law

    Ranney, Joseph A., 1952-
    Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]

    "State laws affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives--our safety, personal relationships, and business dealings--but receive less scholarly attention than federal laws and courts. [The author] looks at how state laws have evolved and shaped American history, through the lens of the historically influential state of Wisconsin. Organized around periods of social need and turmoil, the book considers the role of states as legal laboratories in establishing American authority west of the Appalachians, in both implementing and limiting Jacksonian reforms and in navigating legal crises before and during the Civil War--including Wisconsin's invocation of sovereignty to defy federal fugitive slave laws. [The author] also surveys judicial revolts, the reforms of the Progressive era, and legislative responses to struggles for civil rights by immigrants, women, Native Americans, and minorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since the 1960s, battles have been fought at the state level over such issues as school vouchers, voting, and abortion rights."--

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