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The Right of Redress advances the discussion of corrective justice in private law by refocusing the reversal of transactions away from the prevailing account of the wrongdoer's remedial duty and toward the right of an individual to obtain redress, which the author terms 'redressive justice'.
List of contents
- 1: An Introduction to the Right of Redress
- 2: The Idea of Redressive Justice
- 3: The Value of the Justice in Private Law
- 4: The Enforcement of Contracts
- 5: Tort Law and Redress
- 6: The State as a Fiduciary
- 7: The Meaning of Self-help
- 8: Choice, Equity, and Redress
- 9: Modern Variations on the Theme
About the author
Andrew Gold is a Professor at Brooklyn Law School. His primary research interests address private law theory, fiduciary law, and the law of corporations. He is a co-editor of multiple books on fiduciary theory, including Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press, 2017); and Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Private Law (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Professor Gold has been the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School; an HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University. He is a co-founder of the North American Workshop on Private Law Theory.
Summary
The Right of Redress advances the discussion of corrective justice in private law by refocusing the reversal of transactions away from the prevailing account of the wrongdoer's remedial duty and toward the right of an individual to obtain redress, which the author terms 'redressive justice'.
