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Tort Common Law Future: Preventing Harm and Providing Redress to the Uncounted Injured 侵权普通法的未来:预防损害与对未计数受害方的救济
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2022-0010
Ellen M. Bublick
Abstract How do courts root themselves in traditional tort principles and policies and also develop tort common law in ways that befit contemporary values? This essay argues that judges should weave classic tort aims of harm prevention and redress with contemporary norms of equality of persons, to provide a fuller accounting to people foreseeably risked and harmed by projects undertaken for financial gain. In essence, common law courts must re-ask the crucial question of who is a neighbor in a shrinking world in which risks and consequences can be traced somewhat farther. The article commends a few recent decisions that compel legal regard for a broader cohort of injured people and promote care for their wellbeing. It also encourages scholars to engage more deeply with the state court decisions that determine tort law’s reach.
法院如何立足于传统的侵权原则和政策,并以符合当代价值的方式发展侵权普通法?本文认为,法官应将预防损害和补救的经典侵权目的与当代的人的平等规范结合起来,为那些因经济利益而进行的项目而预见到风险和伤害的人提供更全面的核算。从本质上讲,普通法法院必须重新提出一个关键问题:在一个风险和后果可以追溯得更远的日益缩小的世界里,谁是邻居?这篇文章赞扬了最近的一些决定,这些决定迫使法律关注更广泛的受伤人群,并促进了对他们福祉的关怀。它还鼓励学者们更深入地研究决定侵权法适用范围的州法院判决。
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Social Justice Tort Theory 社会公正侵权理论
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-09-29 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3933027
Martha Chamallas
Abstract Alongside the dominant law and economics and corrective justice approaches to tort law, a new genre of tort theory based on principles and perspectives of social justice has come into its own and deserves recognition. Social justice tort theory starts from the premise that tort law reflects and reinforces systemic forms of injustice in the larger society and maintains that the compensatory ideal of tort law cannot be extricated from these larger systems. It is multi-dimensional and intersectional, recognizing that the impact of injury lands intersectionally, sometimes changing the intensity of the injury or distorting the nature of the injury. Social justice tort scholars have examined torts in gendered and racialized contexts, as well as in ordinary cases that seem to have little to do with systemic injury. In addition to feminist and critical race theory, they have borrowed from critical disability studies, queer theory and political economy. Their work demonstrates how tort law unfairly distributes damages, fails to provide adequate relief for victims of sexual assault or for people who suffer racial insult and discrimination, and erases maternal and reproductive harms. In their work, we can see common deconstructive moves (an emphasis on disparate impacts and devaluation; a teasing out of cognitive bias; and a critique of exceptionalism in tort doctrine) as well as guiding principles for reconstruction (incorporating victims’ perspectives; treating boundaries between civil rights law and tort law as permeable; and enhancing dignity and recognition).
摘要除了占主导地位的法律和经济学以及侵权法的矫正正义方法外,一种基于社会正义原则和视角的新的侵权理论流派已经形成,值得肯定。社会正义侵权理论的出发点是,侵权法反映和强化了大社会中的系统性不公正形式,并认为侵权法的赔偿理想无法从这些大系统中解脱出来。它是多维度和交叉的,认识到伤害的影响是交叉的,有时会改变伤害的强度或扭曲伤害的性质。社会正义侵权学者研究了性别化和种族化背景下的侵权行为,以及与系统性伤害关系不大的普通案件。除了女权主义和批判性种族理论,他们还借鉴了批判性残疾研究、酷儿理论和政治经济学。他们的工作表明,侵权法如何不公平地分配损害赔偿,未能为性侵受害者或遭受种族侮辱和歧视的人提供足够的救济,并消除了对母亲和生殖的伤害。在他们的作品中,我们可以看到常见的解构动作(强调不同的影响和贬值;对认知偏见的嘲弄;以及对侵权学说中例外主义的批判)以及重建的指导原则(纳入受害者的观点;将民权法和侵权法之间的界限视为可渗透的;以及提高尊严和认可度)。
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Form and Substance in the “Private Law” of Torts 侵权行为“私法”中的形式与实质
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2020-0012
Gregory C. Keating
Abstract Instrumentalist ideas have long been prominent in torts scholarship. Since the rise of legal realism, discussions of deterrence, compensation, the minimization of accident costs, and the distribution of losses have dominated scholarly discourse. In the past several decades, however, wholesale rejections of instrumentalist tort theory have arisen. The most uncompromising of these views rallies around the avowedly formalist battle cry that tort is “private law”. Ernest Weinrib’s elegant and influential book, The Idea of Private Law, declares its allegiance to that thesis in its title, and the idea figures almost as centrally in Arthur Ripstein’s recent and important Private Wrongs. Theorists who rally around the banner of “private law” claim that tort law’s governing principles of right and responsibility tumble out of the field’s characteristic legal form. Law, as they understand it, is constitutive of just relations among persons, not an instrument for the pursuit of independently valuable ends. For scholars like Weinrib and Ripstein, “private law” is the Kantian idea of reason that makes our actual law of torts intelligible. The claim that torts is a law of wrongs where persons bring claims in their own names for harms that they have wrongly suffered against those allegedly responsible for those wrongful harms is powerful and persuasive. The claim that the obligations persons owe one another in tort are obligations owed among equal and independent persons is likewise compelling. But theorists of tort as “private law” overshoot the mark by both asking and making too much of form. They ask too much of form when they attempt to make sense of the private law of torts solely in terms of form—eschewing all talk of interests. We cannot understand or justify the law of torts without attending to the interests that it protects. In tort, as elsewhere, rights and the duties they ground protect important individual interests. For example, it is our interest in the physical integrity of our persons that grounds the law of negligence. Theorist of tort as “private law” make too much of form when they present the legal category as its own private fiefdom walled off from surrounding legal fields. For Ripstein and Weinrib, “private law” is its own autonomous domain, sealed off against infection by any legal field whose form identifies it as “public law”. In our law, the private law of torts cooperates and competes with public law institutions as a response to the pervasiveness of accidental harm in an industrial and technological society. It is one way of institutionalizing our interest in safety. Establishing rightful relations among free and equal persons in civil society requires that institutions protect persons’ urgent interests, not just establish their formal independence. The theoretical understanding that we need will recognize that we misunderstand even the private law of torts itself if we sever it entirely from forms of collective responsibil
摘要工具主义思想在托茨的学术研究中一直很突出。自法律现实主义兴起以来,关于威慑、赔偿、事故成本最小化和损失分配的讨论一直主导着学术讨论。然而,在过去的几十年里,出现了对工具主义侵权理论的全盘否定。这些观点中最不妥协的一种是围绕着公然的形式主义斗争口号,即侵权行为是“私法”。欧内斯特·温里布(Ernest Weinrib)优雅而有影响力的著作《私法的理念》(The Idea of Private Law)在其标题中宣布了对这一论点的忠诚,而这一理念在阿瑟·里普斯坦(Arthur Ripstein)最近重要的《私人写作》(Private Wrongs)中几乎占据了核心地位。聚集在“私法”旗帜周围的理论家们声称,侵权法的权利和责任原则脱离了该领域特有的法律形式。他们认为,法律是人与人之间公正关系的组成部分,而不是追求独立有价值目的的工具。对于像Weinrib和Ripstein这样的学者来说,“私法”是康德的理性思想,它使我们的实际侵权法变得清晰易懂。侵权行为是一种错误的法律,即人们以自己的名义对他们所遭受的错误伤害向那些据称对这些错误伤害负有责任的人提出索赔,这种说法是有力和有说服力的。关于侵权行为中人与人之间的义务是平等和独立的人之间所应承担的义务的主张同样令人信服。但是,作为“私法”的侵权行为理论家过分强调了形式。当他们试图仅仅从形式上理解侵权行为的私法时,他们要求的形式太多了,而回避了所有关于利益的讨论。如果不考虑侵权法所保护的利益,我们就无法理解或证明侵权法的合理性。在侵权行为中,与其他地方一样,权利和义务保护重要的个人利益。例如,正是我们对个人身体完整性的利益才是过失法的依据。作为“私法”的侵权行为理论家在将法律范畴描述为与周围法律领域隔绝的私人领地时,过于注重形式。对Ripstein和Weinrib来说,“私法”是自己的自治领域,任何形式将其认定为“公法”的法律领域都将其封闭起来,以防感染。在我国法律中,侵权行为私法与公法机构合作和竞争,以应对工业和技术社会中普遍存在的意外伤害。这是将我们对安全的兴趣制度化的一种方式。在公民社会中建立自由和平等的人之间的合法关系需要机构保护人的迫切利益,而不仅仅是建立他们的正式独立性。我们需要的理论理解将认识到,如果我们将侵权行为私法与避免和修复与其竞争和合作的意外伤害的集体责任形式完全割裂开来,我们甚至会误解侵权行为私法本身。
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Foreword: From Personal Life to Private Law: The Jurisprudence of John Gardner 前言:从个人生活到私法:约翰·加德纳的法理学
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2021-0012
Scott Hershovitz
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Taking Responsibility Personally: On John Gardner’s From Personal Life to Private Law 个人责任:论约翰·加德纳的《从个人生活到私法》
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2021-0011
John C. P. Goldberg
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Sexual Consent without Passivity 无被动性同意
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2021-0004
T. Dougherty
Abstract In “The Opposite of Rape,” John Gardner defends two central claims. The first claim is that consent is not necessary for morally permissible sex and the second claim is that giving consent pride of place in sexual offence policy has the unwelcome consequence of reinforcing sexist ideology. Gardner’s arguments for both claims rely on what I call the “Passive Consent Thesis” which is the thesis that “if A gives consent to B in a sexual encounter, then A is passive and B is active in the encounter.” Gardner argues that if sex that is good in a key respect, then they engage in joint sexual activity that is free of this asymmetry of agency. Building on work by Karamvir Chadha, I respond that even if someone is passive with respect to the action to which they consent, they can still be active with respect to a different action that they perform themselves. Consequently, I maintain that two people can give each other consent while engaging in joint sexual activity.
在《强奸的反面》一书中,约翰·加德纳为两个核心观点进行了辩护。第一种说法是,对于道德上允许的性行为,同意是没有必要的;第二种说法是,在性侵犯政策中把同意放在首位,会导致强化性别歧视意识形态的不良后果。加德纳对这两种说法的论证都依赖于我所说的"被动同意命题"也就是"如果A在性接触中同意了B,那么A在性接触中是被动的,B是主动的"加德纳认为,如果性行为在某个关键方面是好的,那么他们就会进行共同的性行为,而这种行为是不对称的。根据Karamvir Chadha的研究,我的回答是,即使某人对他们同意的行为是被动的,他们仍然可以对他们自己执行的不同行为是主动的。因此,我认为两个人在进行共同的性活动时可以给予对方同意。
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Reconstructing Malice in the Law of Punitive Damages 惩罚性损害赔偿法中的恶意重构
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2020-0009
Marc O Degirolami
Abstract Punitive damages present two related puzzles. One concerns their object. If they are punitive, their object is to punish tortfeasors. If they are damages, their object is to compensate tort victims. If they are both, the problem is to reconcile these different objects in applying them. A second puzzle involves their subject. Punitive damages are awarded for egregious wrongdoing. But the nature of that egregiousness is nebulous and contested, implicating many poorly understood terms. The two puzzles are connected, because the subject of punitive damages will inform their object. Once we know the type of wrongfulness that punitive damages deal with, we can understand better whether and how they are punishing, compensating, or both. This Article reconstructs one of punitive damages’ central subjects: malice. In so doing, it clarifies one key object of punitive damages: to offer redress to a victim of cruelty. Malice is a ubiquitous textual element in the state law of punitive damages. But there has been little scholarly commentary about what malice means for punitive damages. Drawing from the common history of tort and criminal law, this Article identifies two core meanings of malice: a desire or motive to do wrong, and a disposition of callous indifference to the wrong inflicted. Though distinct, these meanings broadly coalesce in the concept of cruelty. The Article argues that this reconstructed account of the wrong of malice represents a powerful justification for awarding punitive damages. Malice as cruelty as a justification for punitive damages also fits within a broader view of tort law as redress for specific private wrongs. But malice as a subject of punitive damages clarifies and enriches this account of their object. A victim of a tort done with malice, and who is aware of it, has been wronged more gravely than a victim of a tort done without malice and is, therefore, entitled to greater redress.
惩罚性赔偿提出了两个相关的难题。一个与他们的目标有关。如果是惩罚性的,其目的是惩罚侵权人。如果是损害赔偿,其目的是赔偿侵权行为的受害人。如果两者都是,那么问题是在应用它们时如何调和这些不同的对象。第二个谜题涉及他们的主题。惩罚性赔偿是对严重不法行为的赔偿。但这种过分行为的本质是模糊的、有争议的,包含了许多不为人所理解的术语。这两个谜题是相连的,因为惩罚性损害赔偿的主体会告知其客体。一旦我们了解了惩罚性损害赔偿所处理的不法行为的类型,我们就能更好地理解它们是在惩罚、补偿,还是两者兼而有之。本文重构了惩罚性损害赔偿的中心主题之一:恶意。这样,它明确了惩罚性损害赔偿的一个关键目标:向残忍行为的受害者提供补救。恶意是惩罚性损害赔偿法中普遍存在的文本要素。但是,关于恶意对惩罚性损害赔偿意味着什么的学术评论却很少。根据侵权法和刑法的共同历史,本文确定了恶意的两个核心含义:做坏事的愿望或动机,以及对被加害人冷漠无情的态度。虽然不同,但这些含义在残忍的概念中广泛地结合在一起。本文认为,这种对恶意错误的重新解释代表了给予惩罚性损害赔偿的有力理由。恶意残忍作为惩罚性损害赔偿的正当理由,也符合侵权法作为对特定私人过错的补救的更广泛观点。但是恶意作为惩罚性损害赔偿的主体澄清并丰富了对其客体的解释。恶意侵权行为的受害者,如果意识到这一点,就比无恶意侵权行为的受害者受到更严重的冤枉,因此有权获得更大的赔偿。
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Litigation Financing: Balancing Access with Fairness 诉讼融资:获取与公平的平衡
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2020-2007
M. E. Wheeler, Theresa Wardon Benz
Abstract Litigation financing of plaintiffs by financiers other than the law firms representing the plaintiffs in the litigation is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. Contrary to assertions by advocates for such litigation financing, such litigation financing does not increase fairness and justice to poor and middle-class victims. Instead, it creates substantial problems beyond any associated with standard contingent-fee agreements between plaintiffs and the lawyers who represent them. This article describes the multiple ways in which the litigation-financing industry harms poor and middle-class tort plaintiffs and generates inefficient uses of judicial resources and jurors' time. It then recommends actions that courts can take to reduce those problems.
原告的诉讼融资是由诉讼中代表原告的律师事务所以外的金融家为原告提供的,现在是一个数十亿美元的产业。与此类诉讼融资倡导者的主张相反,此类诉讼融资并没有增加对穷人和中产阶级受害者的公平和正义。相反,它造成的实质问题超出了原告和代表他们的律师之间的标准或有费用协议。本文描述了诉讼融资行业损害贫困和中产阶级侵权原告的多种方式,并导致司法资源和陪审员时间的低效使用。然后,它建议法院可以采取的行动来减少这些问题。
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Frontmatter Frontmatter
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2020-frontmatter2
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Not So Fast: A Brief Plea for Muddling Through the Problems of Autonomous Vehicle Liability 不那么快:为搅乱自动驾驶汽车责任问题辩护
Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jtl-2020-2012
Adam F. Scales
Abstract Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are likely to change a great deal about the practical workings of the liability system for auto accidents. However, we cannot know how just yet. Attempts to anticipate the future and preemptively redesign the liability system around its imagined contours are likely to invite error and frustration. Discretion often being the better part of valor, I suggest we muddle through a bit first.
摘要自动驾驶汽车可能会改变汽车事故责任制度的实际运作。然而,我们现在还不知道是怎么回事。试图预测未来并围绕其想象的轮廓先发制人地重新设计责任制度可能会招致错误和挫折。谨慎往往是勇气的更好部分,我建议我们先蒙混过关。
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