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Private Wrongs


ISBN13: 9780674659803
Published: April 2016
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
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A waiter spills coffee on a customer. A person walks on another person's land. A frustrated neighbor bangs on the wall. A reputation is ruined by a mistaken news report. Although the details vary, the law recognizes all of these as torts, different ways in which one person wrongs another. Tort law can seem puzzling: sometimes people are made to pay damages when they are barely at fault, while at other times serious losses go uncompensated. In this pioneering book, Arthur Ripstein brings coherence and unity to the baffling diversity of tort law in an original theory that is philosophically grounded and analytically powerful.

Ripstein shows that all torts violate the basic moral idea that each person is in charge of his or her own person and property, and never in charge of another's person or property. Some wrongs involve one person using another's body or property; others involve damaging them. Tort remedies aim to provide a substitute for the rights that have been violated. As Private Wrongs makes clear, tort law not only protects our bodies and property but constitutes our entitlement to use them as we see fit, consistent with the entitlement of others to do the same.

Subjects:
Tort Law, Jurisprudence
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction: Retrieving the Idea of a Private Wrong
2. What You Already Have, Part 1: Your Body and Property
3. Using What You Have: Misfeasance and Nonfeasance
4. Wrongdoing for Which the Offender Must Pay: Negligence
5. Use What Is Yours in a Way That Does Not Injure Your Neighbor: Strict Liability
6. A Malicious Wrong in Its Strict Legal Sense: Motive and Intention in Tort Law
7. What You Already Have, Part 2: Your Own Good Name
8. Remedies, Part 1: As If It Had Never Happened
9. Remedies, Part 2: Before a Court
10. Conclusion: Horizontal and Vertical
Index