Recognizing wrongs.
"Recognizing Wrongs is about tort law, also commonly known as "personal injury law." The book's central thesis is that tort law fulfills a basic obligation that government owes to each of us: to provide law that defines and proscribes a special class of wrongs - wrongs that invol...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts:
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Civil wrongs and civil rights
- Against the grain
- Rules, duties, rights, and rights of action
- The principle of civil recourse : a defense
- Damages as redress
- Moral luck, strict liability, and victim standing : three features of tortious wrongdoing
- Dual instrumentalism
- Dual constructivism
- Civil recourse in the modern world
- Applications : the duty of care, design defects, and internet libel.