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Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

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Elizabeth Chamblee Burch is an award-winning scholar and the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. A prolific author on mass tort lawsuits, she is also a frequent commentator in national news media such as NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times.

What is a mass tort?!

This is a basic intro to what a mass tort is for non-lawyers and law students alike!
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This is a very important piece of journalism and I hope it ends up getting a documentary for the sake of more mainstream visibility. This must have taken an insane amount " Read more of this review »
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"Thank you @crownpublishing @simon.audio #partner for the gifted copies of this book!

It seems every time I pick up a nonfiction book I unknowingly (or maybe knowingly?!) set myself a personal goal to become completely enraged. I don’t know.

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