Robert F. Cochran, Jr., is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor and director of the Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at the Pepperdine University School of Law. He is the author of over 35 articles and books, including Cases and Materials on the Legal Profession, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought, and Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility. Robert M. Ackerman is professor of law and director of the Center for Dispute Resolution at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law. He has also served as the dean of Willamette University College of Law and has written extensively in the fields of torts, dispute resolution, trial practice, and professional responsibility.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Intermediate Communities, For Good and IllChapter 3 Tort Law and Intermediate Communities - An OverviewChapter 4 An Intermediate Communitarian Perspective on Tort LawChapter 5 Torts and FamiliesChapter 6 Religious CongregationsChapter 7 Torts and the Larger Community: The Limits of Legal ObligationChapter 8 Preserving the Larger Community (or, how to avoid killing the goose that laid the golden egg)Chapter 9 Damages, the Community, and 9/11Chapter 10 Toward a Communitarian Tort SystemChapter 11 Communitarian Principles and Law

American law is comparatively individualistic compared to other legal systems, and tort law is the heartland of that individualism. Nonetheless, Cochran and Ackerman have discovered significant concerns for community and the common good even within our tort law. By drawing these apparent anomalies to our attention, and by developing their possible implications for tort law and our legal system generally, they have made an enormous contribution. They have helped us speak again in other ways than we are used to. May their voices reverberate in many quarters!

Robert F. Cochran, Jr., is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor and director of the Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at the Pepperdine University School of Law. He is the author of over 35 articles and books, including Cases and Materials on the Legal Profession, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought, and Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility. Robert M. Ackerman is professor of law and director of the Center for Dispute Resolution at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law. He has also served as the dean of Willamette University College of Law and has written extensively in the fields of torts, dispute resolution, trial practice, and professional responsibility.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Intermediate Communities, For Good and IllChapter 3 Tort Law and Intermediate Communities - An OverviewChapter 4 An Intermediate Communitarian Perspective on Tort LawChapter 5 Torts and FamiliesChapter 6 Religious CongregationsChapter 7 Torts and the Larger Community: The Limits of Legal ObligationChapter 8 Preserving the Larger Community (or, how to avoid killing the goose that laid the golden egg)Chapter 9 Damages, the Community, and 9/11Chapter 10 Toward a Communitarian Tort SystemChapter 11 Communitarian Principles and Law

American law is comparatively individualistic compared to other legal systems, and tort law is the heartland of that individualism. Nonetheless, Cochran and Ackerman have discovered significant concerns for community and the common good even within our tort law. By drawing these apparent anomalies to our attention, and by developing their possible implications for tort law and our legal system generally, they have made an enormous contribution. They have helped us speak again in other ways than we are used to. May their voices reverberate in many quarters!

Robert F. Cochran, Jr., is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor and director of the Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at the Pepperdine University School of Law. He is the author of over 35 articles and books, including Cases and Materials on the Legal Profession, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought, and Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility. Robert M. Ackerman is professor of law and director of the Center for Dispute Resolution at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law. He has also served as the dean of Willamette University College of Law and has written extensively in the fields of torts, dispute resolution, trial practice, and professional responsibility.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Intermediate Communities, For Good and IllChapter 3 Tort Law and Intermediate Communities - An OverviewChapter 4 An Intermediate Communitarian Perspective on Tort LawChapter 5 Torts and FamiliesChapter 6 Religious CongregationsChapter 7 Torts and the Larger Community: The Limits of Legal ObligationChapter 8 Preserving the Larger Community (or, how to avoid killing the goose that laid the golden egg)Chapter 9 Damages, the Community, and 9/11Chapter 10 Toward a Communitarian Tort SystemChapter 11 Communitarian Principles and Law

American law is comparatively individualistic compared to other legal systems, and tort law is the heartland of that individualism. Nonetheless, Cochran and Ackerman have discovered significant concerns for community and the common good even within our tort law. By drawing these apparent anomalies to our attention, and by developing their possible implications for tort law and our legal system generally, they have made an enormous contribution. They have helped us speak again in other ways than we are used to. May their voices reverberate in many quarters!