Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals
by Edited by R. G. Frey , Christopher W. MorrisEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-10-30
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This collection of contemporary essays by a group of well-known philosophers and legal theorists covers various topics in the philosophy of law, focusing on issues concerning liability in contract, tort, and criminal law. The book is divided into four sections. The first provides a conceptual overview of the issues at stake in a philosophical discussion of liability and responsibility. The second, third, and fourth sections present, in turn, more detailed explorations of the roles of notions of liability and responsibility in contracts, torts, and punishment. The collection not only presents some of the most challenging work being done in legal philosophy today, it also demonstrates the interdisciplinary character of the field of philosophy of law, with contributors taking into account recent developments in economics, political science, and rational choice theory. This thought-provoking volume will help to shed light on the underexplored ground that lies between law and morals.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| List of contributors | |
| Introduction | |
| Responsibility: Some Conceptual Problems | |
| Can responsibility be diminished? | |
| Intention and side-effects | |
| Attempting the impossible | |
| Consent, Choice and Contracts | |
| Beyond foreseeability: consequential damages in the law of contract | |
| Rights and remedies in a consent theory of contract | |
| A bargaining theory approach to default provisions and disclosure rules in contract law | |
| Risk, Compensation and Torts | |
| Theories of compensation | |
| Liberty, community and corrective justice | |
| Risk, causation, and harm | |
| Punishment | |
| Retributive hatred: an essay on criminal liability and the emotions | |
| A new theory of retribution | |
| Punishment and self-defense | |
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