“… 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 risks to them in ways that are inconsistent with their independence. Tort remedies aim to provide a substitute for the right that was violated. As Private Wrongs makes clear, tort law not only protects our bodies and property but constitutes our entitlement to use them as we see fit, consistent with the entitlement of others to do the same …” (more)
Arthur Ripstein, Private Wrongs. Hardcover: 330 pages. Harvard University Press (5 April 2016), ISBN-10: 0674659805.
First posted 2016-04-07 13:49:27
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