Wrongs, Harms, and Compensation - Paying for Our Mistakes

Informationen zum Autor Adam Slavny is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. His primary area of research is the philosophy of tort law. His work focuses on theories of harm and compensation, principles governing liability to compensate, the value of reputation in defamation, the wrongness of risking, and the relationship between tort theory and moral philosophy. He has also worked on a number of other topics across moral, political, and legal philosophy. Klappentext In this work, Adam Slavny explores our moral duties to respond to wrongs and harms, and defends the significance of these duties for the normative foundations of tort law. Zusammenfassung In this work, Adam Slavny explores our moral duties to respond to wrongs and harms, and defends the significance of these duties for the normative foundations of tort law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Interpretivism and Foundationalism 3: Unpacking Corrective Duties 4: Capacity and Cost Sensitivity in Negligence 5: Outcome Responsibility 6: Fairness and Liability 7: Corrective and Distributive Justice 8: Compensation Schemes

Product details

• Authors: Adam Slavny, Adam (Associate Professor Slavny
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780192864567
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286456-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford Private Law Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Civil Law, LAW / Torts, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Private or civil law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Private / Civil law: general works, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts