Torts and Other Wrongs

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.

List of contents

• 1: Torts and Other Wrongs


• 2: What is Tort Law For? The Place of Corrective Justice


• 3: What is Tort Law For? The Place of Distributive Justice


• 4: Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law


• 5: Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts


• 6: Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law


• 7: The Negligence Standard: Political not Metaphysical


• 8: The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person


• 9: The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person


• 10: Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law


• 11: Breach of Contract as a Special Case of Tort

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Gardner makes a convincing argument … contains enough insights to reward multiple readings

Product details

• Authors: John Gardner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780198852957
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885295-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Jurisprudence, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Torts / Delicts