Philosophical foundations of the law of torts / edited by John Oberdiek.
Material type: TextSeries: Philosophical foundations of law | Philosophical foundations of lawPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2018Description: 464 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780198824220:
- 346.0301 23
- .P4 2018
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Lending | Carlow Campus Library General Lending | 346.0301 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 84598 |
Originally published: 2014. 40.00 CW708
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Part 1: Foundations of Tort Law] Introduction: Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts, John Oberdiek -- Tort Law and Responsibility / John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky -- Torts, Rights, and Risk / Stephen Perry -- Compensation as a Tort Norm / Mark A. Geistfeld -- Tort as a Substitute for Revenge/ Scott Hershovitz -- Structure and Justification in Contractualist Tort Theory / John Oberdiek -- On the "Property" and the "Tort" in Trespass / Eric R. Claeys --Tort Law and Public Functions / Peter Cane.
[Part 2: Harms, wrongs, responsibility and liability] What Might have Been / Victor Tadros -- Why Reparations? / Rahul Kumar -- Repairing Harms and Answering for Wrongs / R.A. Duff -- Tort Processes and Relational Repair / Linda Radzik -- Tort Liability and Taking Responsibility / David Enoch -- Exploring the Relationship Between Consent, Assumption of Risk, and Victim Negligence / Kenneth W. Simons -- Strict Liability Wrongs / Gregory C. Keating -- Normative Theories of Punitive Damages: The Case of Deterrence / Anthony J. Sebok.
[Part 3: Distributive justice in tort law] What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice / John Gardner -- Tort Law and Distributive Justice / Hanoch Sheinman.
[Part 4: Skeptical perspectives] Finding No Fault With Negligence / Heidi M. Hurd -- Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, and the Collapse of Tort Theory / Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan.