Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts

Introduction: Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts, John Oberdiek

Part I: Foundations of Tort Law

1: Tort Law and Responsibility, John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky

2: Torts, Rights, and Risk, Stephen Perry

3: Compensation as a Tort Norm, Mark A. Geistfeld

4: Tort as a Substitute for Revenge, Scott Hershovitz

5: Structure and Justification in Contractualist Tort Theory, John Oberdiek

6: On the "Property" and the "Tort" in Trespass, Eric R. Claeys

7: Tort Law and Public Functions, Peter Cane

Part II: Harms, Wrongs, Responsibility, and Liability

8: What Might have Been, Victor Tadros

9: Why Reparations?, Rahul Kumar

10: Repairing Harms and Answering for Wrongs, R.A. Duff

11: Tort Processes and Relational Repair, Linda Radzik

12: Tort Liability and Taking Responsibility, David Enoch

13: Exploring the Relationship Between Consent, Assumption of Risk, and Victim Negligence, Kenneth W. Simons

14: Strict Liability Wrongs, Gregory C. Keating

15: Normative Theories of Punitive Damages: The Case of Deterrence, Anthony J. Sebok

Part III: Distributive Justice in Tort Law

16: What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice, John Gardner

17: Tort Law and Distributive Justice, Hanoch Sheinman

Part IV: Skeptical Perspectives

18: Finding No Fault With Negligence, Heidi M. Hurd

19: Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, and the Collapse of Tort Theory, Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

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John Oberdiek is Professor at the Rutgers University School of Law. His is also a Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers Department of Philosophy, Co-Editor of the journal Law and Philosophy, and has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.