Private Wrongs
$149.06
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2016
Summary
A waiter spills hot coffee on a customer. A person walks on another person’s land. A moored boat damages a dock during a storm. 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 or not at fault, while at other times serious losses go uncompens…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674659803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674659805 |
| Author: | Arthur Ripstein |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
Ripstein is among the world’s leading philosophers. In Private Wrongs he offers a derivation of tort law’s complex body of rules from a foundational moral principle that is at once elegant, original, and ambitious. Scholars working in private law and in legal, moral, and political philosophy will be required to engage with it, and will want to. – John Goldberg, Harvard University
For those coming to the form of argument presented by Ripstein for the first time, a common reaction may be ‘Can the law possibly be this clear and straightforward to understand?’ To which the only possible response is yes. Yes it is. Anyone wishing to cut through the white noise that has come to surround private law in general, and the law of torts in particular, and hear the truth clearly expressed should read this book. – Robert Stevens, University of Oxford
This is a stellar book. Ripstein fully restores what might be called the pre-Holmesian, non-reductive, or classical account of tort law. He compels us to regard this classical view as a serious and morally significant option. – Martin J. Stone, Cardozo Law School
Arthur Ripstein
Arthur Ripstein is University Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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