Torts and Other Wrongs

by John Gardner

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198852957
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/25/2021
Edition description:	1
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	8.57(w) x 5.45(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

John Gardner

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.

Table of Contents

1. Torts and Other Wrongs2. What is Tort Law For? The Place of Corrective Justice3. What is Tort Law For? The Place of Distributive Justice4. Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law5. Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts6. Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law7. The Negligence Standard: Political not Metaphysical8. The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person9. The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person10. Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law11. Breach of Contract as a Special Case of Tort

Editorial Reviews

"Gardner makes a convincing argument … contains enough insights to reward multiple readings" — Andrew S. Gold, Law and Philosophy

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