John Gardner

Torts and Other Wrongs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 138mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852957
• ISBN-10: 0198852959
• Artikelnr.: 62274674

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Torts and Other Wrongs
2: What is Tort Law For? The Place of Corrective Justice
3: What is Tort Law For? The Place of Distributive Justice
4: Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law
5: Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts
6: Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law
7: The Negligence Standard: Political not Metaphysical
8: The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person
9: The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person
10: Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law
11: Breach of Contract as a Special Case of Tort