Recognizing wrongs
Much bemoaned and widely misunderstood, tort law provides an essential vehicle for injured parties to seek redress from wrongdoers and hold them accountable. John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky defend tort law against its critics and lay out comprehensively their increasingly influential "civil recourse" conception of tort.
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- Full title :Recognizing wrongs / John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky.
Summary
Much bemoaned and widely misunderstood, tort law provides an essential vehicle for injured parties to seek redress from wrongdoers and hold them accountable. John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky defend tort law against its critics and lay out comprehensively their increasingly influential "civil recourse" conception of tort.
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (380 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674246546, 0674246543
- oclc:on1133654924
- LC Classification:KF1250
- Dewey Decimal:346.7303
Table of Contents
I. Civil recourse -- Civil wrongs and civil rights -- Against the grain -- Rules, duties, rights, and rights of action -- The principle of civil recourse : a defense -- Damages as redress -- II. The wrongs of tort law -- Moral luck, strict liability, and victim standing : three features of tortious wrongdoing -- Dual instrumentalism -- Dual constructivism -- III. Wrongs and recourse in context -- Civil recourse in the modern world -- Applications : the duty of care, design defects, and internet libel -- Conclusion: Recognizing wrongs.
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