Torts and Other Wrongs
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 July 2021
- ISBN 9780198852957
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 214x136x21 mm
- Weight 466 g
- Language English 112
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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
Gardner makes a convincing argument --- contains enough insights to reward multiple readings
Table of Contents:
Torts and Other Wrongs
What is Tort Law For? The Place of Corrective Justice
What is Tort Law For? The Place of Distributive Justice
Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law
Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts
Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law
The Negligence Standard: Political not Metaphysical
The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person
The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person
Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law
Breach of Contract as a Special Case of Tort
