Private Wrongs by Arthur Ripstein (English) Hardcover Book

by Arthur Ripstein

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Private Wrongs by Arthur Ripstein Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Tort law recognizes the many ways one person wrongs another. Arthur Ripstein brings coherence to torts diversity in a philosophically grounded, analytically powerful theory. He 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. Publisher Description 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 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 individual is in charge of his or her own person and property, and never in charge of another individual s person or property. Battery and trespass involve one person wrongly using another s body or things, while negligence injures others by imposing r

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780674659803
• Condition: Fine

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