ABSTRACT
An orthodox view of tort law sees it as primarily a means of assigning costs – for economic reasons, on some views, or for moral reasons, on others. Gregory Keating compellingly challenges this orthodoxy, showing how tort is essentially a matter of setting prospective norms designed to protect rational agents from wrongful harms, to which it attaches special negative significance. Here I discuss two areas that may raise complications for this account – strict liability and the tortious infliction of pain – and propose a reconciliation.
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Jeffrey S Helmreich, Against Harm: Keating on the Soul of Tort Law, Journal of Tort Law. Published by De Gruyter 23 May 2024.
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