“Nathan Oman’s brilliant and provocative article The Honor of Private Law asserts that private law must be understood as a system for the vindication of lost honor. While he enthusiastically embraces civil recourse theory and graciously credits me and my frequent collaborator John Goldberg for pointing private law theorists down the right path, Oman faults us for failing to supply an adequate defense of civil recourse theory. Seeking to remedy this deficit, Oman advances an honor-based justification for civil recourse theory …”
Zipursky, Benjamin C., “Honor and Civil Recourse: A Response to Nathan Oman’s The Honor of Private Law” (2012). Res Gestae. Paper 9.
First posted 2012-05-01 13:05:45
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