Reasonableness and Risk - Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts

The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. This book argues that tort law addresses a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility.

List of contents

• Chapter One: Wrongs, Harms, and Costs


• Chapter Two: The Priority of Responsibility Over Repair


• Chapter Three: The Importance of Interests


• Chapter Four: Fairness and Fault


• Chapter Five: From Reparation to Regulation


• Chapter Six: Strict Responsibilities


• Chapter Seven: Enterprise Liability: Collective Responsibility and Commutative Justice


• Chapter Eight: The Heterogeneity of Tort

About the author

Gregory C. Keating is William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy at the USC Gould School of Law and the USC Department of Philosophy. He is the co-editor of a leading tort law case book and the author of numerous articles on tort law, strict liability, negligence, harm, and responsibility.

Summary

The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. This book argues that tort law addresses a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory C. Keating, Gregory C. (William T. Dalessi Professor Keating, Gregory C. (William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy Keating
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2022
• EAN: 9780190867942
• ISBN: 978-0-19-086794-2
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Torts, Jurisprudence and general issues, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Energy & natural resources law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts, Energy and natural resources law