Torts and Other Wrongs

Torts and Other Wrongs PDF

Author: John Gardner

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0198852940

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This book collects John Gardner's celebrated essays on the theory of private law, alongside two new essays. Together they range across the central puzzles in understanding the significance of outcomes, the role of justice in private law, strict liability, the reasonable person standard, and the role of public policy in tort law.

Private Wrongs

Private Wrongs PDF

Author: Arthur Ripstein

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0674659805

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Tort law recognizes the many ways one person wrongs another. Arthur Ripstein brings coherence to torts’ diversity in a philosophically grounded, analytically powerful theory. He shows that all torts violate the basic moral idea that each person is in charge of his or her own person and property, and never in charge of another’s person or property.

Recognizing Wrongs

Recognizing Wrongs PDF

Author: John C. P. Goldberg

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0674241703

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"Recognizing Wrongs is about tort law, also commonly known as "personal injury law." The book's central thesis is that tort law fulfills a basic obligation that government owes to each of us: to provide law that defines and proscribes a special class of wrongs - wrongs that involve one person mistreating another - and to provide a means for victims of such wrongs to obtain redress from those who have wronged them. This book aims to recover the traditional understanding of tort law by helping readers to recognize what it is all about. It does so by offering a systematic statement of a theory now known in academic circles as "civil recourse theory." In providing a comprehensive statement of that theory, the book aims to unseat both the leading philosophical theory of tort law - corrective justice theory, as put forward by Jules Coleman, John Gardner, Arthur Ripstein, Ernest Weinrib, and others - as well as the economic approach favored by scholars such as Guido Calabresi and Richard Posner"--

Private Wrongs

Private Wrongs PDF

Author: Arthur Ripstein

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 067496991X

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Tort law recognizes the many ways one person wrongs another. Arthur Ripstein brings coherence to torts’ diversity in a philosophically grounded, analytically powerful theory. He shows that all torts violate the basic moral idea that each person is in charge of his or her own person and property, and never in charge of another’s person or property.

Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law

Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law PDF

Author: Paul B. Miller

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0190865261

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"Civil wrongs occupy a significant place in private law. They are particularly prominent in tort law, but equally have a place in contract law, property and intellectual property law, unjust enrichment, fiduciary law, and in equity more broadly. For example, some tort theorists maintain that tort law is best understood as a (or perhaps the) law of civil wrongs and some contract law theorists maintain that breach of contract is a civil wrong. Civil wrongs are also a preoccupation of leading general theories of private law, including corrective justice and civil recourse theories. According to these and other theories, the centrality of civil wrongs to civil liability shows that private law is fundamentally concerned with the expression and enforcement of norms of justice appropriate to interpersonal interaction and association. Others, sounding notes of caution or criticism, argue that a preoccupation with wrongs and remedies has meant neglect of other ways in which private law serves justice, and ways in which private law serves values other than justice. The present volume comprises original papers written by a wide variety of legal theorists and philosophers exploring the nature of civil wrongs, their place in private law, and their relationship to other forms of wrongdoing. It should be of broad interest to lawyers and legal theorists as well as moral and political theorists"--

Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract

Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract PDF

Author: Andrew S. Burrows

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780406977267

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Now in its third edition this popular text has been comprehensively rewritten to take account of all new developments in the law, as well as Law Commission reports and academic writings. The book has also been restructured and divided into parts which correspond to the primary functions of the remedies for torts and breach of contract, namely compensation, restitution and punishment, compelling performance or preventing (or compelling the undoing of) a wrong, and declaring rights. Reflecting their increased importance in practice, and the considerable recent academic attention devoted to them, there is also a new chapter on remedies for equitable wrongs such as breach of fiduciary duty and reach of confidence.

From Personal Life to Private Law

From Personal Life to Private Law PDF

Author: John Gardner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0198818750

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"This book ... is a descendant of my eponymous Quain Lectures, delivered at University College London in 2014"--Preface.