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Informationen zum Autor Professor Gerhart is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Columbia Law School. He practised law with Weil, Gotshal, and Manges before entering teaching in 1975. Before serving as Dean of the Case Western Reserve School of Law from 1986 to 1996, he was an expert in antitrust law, publishing widely in the area and serving as consultant to both the ABA Commission on the Future of Antitrust Law and the Carter Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures. Since 1996 he has specialized in international economic law, tort law, and legal theory. Klappentext Develops a theory of tort law integrating deontic and consequential approaches by applying justificational analysis to identify its factors, circumstances, and values. Zusammenfassung Develops a theory of tort law that integrates deontic and consequential approaches by applying justificational analysis to identify the factors! circumstances! and values that shape tort law. This book refocuses tort law on a single theory of responsibility that explains and justifies the broad range of tort doctrine and concepts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Other-Regarding Behavior: 1. Law as a social institution; 2. Social cohesion and social values: the reasonable person; Part II. The Normative Justification: 3. An integrated normative analysis; 4. Kantian duty; 5. Rawlsian consequentialism: Rawls and social cohesion; Part III. The Theory Applied: 6. Social cohesion and autonomy: the justificational boundary of duty; 7. Social cohesion and moral agency: the justification for proximate cause; 8. Social cohesion and strict liability; 9. Using another's property; 10. Product liability: social cohesion and agency relationships; 11. Customer-centered enterprise liability; 12. Social cohesion and knowledge: the intentional torts; Part IV. Lessons and Extrapolations: 13. The whole in one.
