Tort Law

List of contents

Contents: Corrective justice, Ernest J. Weinrib; The gains and losses of corrective justice, Ernest J. Weinrib; Restitutionary damages as corrective justice, Ernest J, Weinrib; On the idea of private law, Martin Stone; The mixed conception of corrective justice, Jules L. Coleman; The practice of corrective justice, Jules L. Coleman; The moral foundations of tort law, Stephen R. Perry; Substantive corrective justice, Richard W. Wright; Mischief and misfortune, Jules Coleman and Arthur Ripstein; The distributive turn: mischief, misfortune and tort law, Stephen R. Perry; Rights, wrongs and recourse in the law of torts, Benjamin C. Zipursky; Pragmatic conceptualism, Benjamin C. Zipursky; Correlativity, personality and the emerging consensus on corrective justice, Ernest J. Weinrib; Name index.

About the author

Ernest J. Weinrib

Summary

This title was first published in 2002. The essays contained within this volume explore the notions of justice that inform the doctrines and institutions of tort law. Many of these essays explicitly invoke the idea of corrective justice. Others explore ideas of responsibility and fairness.

Additional text

'The authors are all North American, but the collection will certainly be of interest to those on thise side of the Atlantic who want a taster of recent writings in a significant branch of modern tort law theory.' European Tort Law

Product details

• Authors: Ernest J. Weinrib
• Assisted by: Ernest J. Weinrib (Editor), Weinrib Ernest J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138721593
• ISBN: 978-1-138-72159-3
• No. of pages: 586
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / General, Society and culture: general, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts