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Torts and Other Wrongs John Gardner

Torts and Other Wrongs By John Gardner

Torts and Other Wrongs by John Gardner


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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.

Torts and Other Wrongs Summary

Torts and Other Wrongs by John Gardner

Torts and other Wrongs is a collection of eleven of the author's essays on the theory of the law of torts and its place in the law more generally. Two new essays accompany nine previously published pieces, a number of which are already established classics of theoretical writing on private law. Together they range across the distinction between torts and other wrongs, the moral significance of outcomes, the nature and role of corrective and distributive justice, the justification

Torts and Other Wrongs Reviews

Gardner makes a convincing argument ... contains enough insights to reward multiple readings * Andrew S. Gold, Law and Philosophy *

About John Gardner

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.

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NPB9780198852957
9780198852957
0198852959
Torts and Other Wrongs by John Gardner
New
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2021-07-14
350
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