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Author
Title
Tort law and social morality / Peter M. Gerhart.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Call Number
KF1250 .G47 2010
ISBN
9780521768962 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0521768969 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780521759748 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521759749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521768969 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780521759748 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521759749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xxviii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)502037212
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
xi
The Justificational Project
xii
Corrective Justice Theories
xiii
Law and Economic Theories
xvi
The Integration Project
xviii
The Coherence Project
xix
A Comment About Our Conception of Law
xx
Acknowledgments
xxvii
pt. I
OTHER-REGARDING BEHAVIOR
1.
Law as a Social Institution
3
1.1.
The Coordination Problem
3
1.2.
Other-Regarding Behavior as a Coordination Device
7
1.3.
Other-Regarding Behavior and Personal Decision Making
11
1.4.
Other-Regarding Behavior and Social Cohesion
12
1.5.
Social Cohesion and Other-Regarding Behavior
16
1.6.
An Example
18
1.7.
Conclusion
22
2.
Social Cohesion and Social Values: The Reasonable Person
24
2.1.
The Current Understanding
24
2.2.
The Hand Formula as Other-Regarding Behavior
29
2.3.
The Creation of Social Values and Other-Regarding Behavior
32
2.4.
Applying the Hand Formula
37
2.5.
The Hand Formula and Compliance Errors
47
2.6.
Various Levels of Care
55
2.7.
Conclusion
57
pt. II
THE NORMATIVE JUSTIFICATION
3.
An Integrated Normative Analysis
61
3.1.
An Outline of the Main Argument
61
3.2.
Economics and Corrective Justice
64
3.3.
Conclusion
73
4.
Kantian Duty
74
4.1.
Existing Understanding
75
4.2.
Kantian Methodology of Decision Making
77
4.3.
The Morality of Thinking About the Well-Being of Others
80
4.4.
Kant's Consequentialism
83
4.5.
Kant and Humans as a Resource
85
4.6.
Conclusion
90
5.
Rawlsian Consequentialism: Rawls and Social Cohesion
91
5.1.
The Veil of Ignorance in Tort Theory
93
5.2.
The Veil of Ignorance
94
5.3.
Interpersonal Comparisons
99
5.4.
Conclusion: The Metaphysics of Social Cohesion
101
pt. III
THE THEORY APPLIED
6.
Social Cohesion and Autonomy: The Justificational Boundary of Duty
105
6.1.
The Duty Wars
106
6.2.
The Hand Formula and the Limits of Responsibility
108
6.3.
Choice and the Requirements of Social Cohesion
109
6.4.
Choice of Activities and Risk; Two Kinds of Negligence Cases
114
6.5.
Activities That Imply Accepting Risks
119
6.6.
Conclusion
125
7.
Social Cohesion and Moral Agency: The Justification for Proximate Cause
127
7.1.
Nonjustificational Approaches
127
7.2.
A Fault-Based Theory
133
7.3.
Moral Agency and the Reasonableness Concept
136
7.4.
The Justification for Moral Agency Limitations on Responsibility
138
7.5.
The Analytics of Circumstances
140
7.5.1.
The Palsgraf Example
140
7.5.2.
Relevance and Reasonable Assumptions
141
7.5.3.
Information About Victim's Behavior
144
7.5.4.
Multiple Effects
146
7.6.
Conclusion
149
8.
Social Cohesion and Strict Liability
150
8.1.
The Inadequacy of Existing Theory
152
8.1.1.
Reciprocal Risks
153
8.1.2.
The Evidentiary Rationale for Strict Liability
155
8.1.3.
The Loss Spreading or Enterprise Liability Theory
157
8.2.
Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities
158
8.3.
Activity-Level Decisions and the Negligence Rule
160
8.3.1.
Activity-Level Decisions
160
8.3.2.
The Negligence Regime Reaches Unreasonable Activity-Level Decisions
162
8.3.3.
Liability for Frequency Decisions
168
8.4.
Liability for Residual Risk
172
8.4.1.
Measuring Residual Risk
173
8.4.2.
Responsibility for Residual Risk
175
8.5.
Conclusion
177
9.
Using Another's Property
179
9.1.
The Justificational Problems of Vincent
179
9.2.
Recent Justificational Analysis
183
9.3.
The Obligation of the Other-Regarding Actor to Compensate
186
9.4.
Conclusion
192
10.
Product Liability: Social Cohesion and Agency Relationships
194
10.1.
The Justificational Errors
194
10.2.
An Overview of This Chapter
198
10.3.
The Dichotomy Between Products and Services
200
10.4.
Historical Development of the Scope of Other-Regarding Behavior of Suppliers
201
10.5.
Torts and Agency Relationships
206
10.6.
Torts and Information
208
10.7.
Manufacturing Defects
211
10.8.
Conclusion
213
11.
Customer-Centered Enterprise Liability
214
11.1.
The Other-Regarding Customer
215
11.2.
The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case
218
11.3.
The General Model
222
11.4.
Conclusion
224
12.
Social Cohesion and Knowledge: The Intentional Torts
226
12.1.
Introduction
227
12.2.
Knowledge of Consequences and Social Cohesion
229
12.3.
Unreasonable Consequences
231
12.4.
Reasonableness Defenses
233
12.5.
Conclusion
234
pt. IV
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
13.
The Whole in One
237
13.1.
General Methodologies
239
13.2.
The Analytics of Torts Cases
242
Index
249