Torts and Other Wrongs

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-885294-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Torts and other Wrongs is a collection of eleven of the author's essays on the theory of the law of torts and its place in the law more generally. Two new essays accompany nine previously published pieces, a number of which are already established classics of theoretical writing on private law. Together they range across the distinction between torts and other wrongs, the moral significance of outcomes, the nature and role of corrective and distributive justice, the justification of strict liability, the nature of the reasonable person standard, and the role of public policy in tort adjudication. Though focussed on the law of torts, the wide-ranging analysis in each chapter will speak to theorists of private law more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gardner, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Torts and Other Wrongs

- 2: What is Tort Law For? The Place of Corrective Justice

- 3: What is Tort Law For? The Place of Distributive Justice

- 4: Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law

- 5: Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts

- 6: Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law

- 7: The Negligence Standard: Political not Metaphysical

- 8: The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person

- 9: The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person

- 10: Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law

- 11: Breach of Contract as a Special Case of Tort

Über Autor(innen)

The late John Gardner was a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, prior to which he was the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford from 2000 to 2016. He held senior visiting positions at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell among many others, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.