Private Law Theory

“Tony Sebok’s post on tort damages and discrimination presents a fascinating problem that I’ve often used as a basis for discussion in my torts classes. If race (or some other feature likely to be discriminated against) is taken into account in an attempt to predict the future earnings of a tort victim, then damages awards will reflect the wider discrimination in society, in a sense making the tort plaintiff who falls into a discriminated-against category a victim twice, once at the moment of injury and again at the moment of compensation …” (more)

[Keith Hylton, New Private Law, 24 August]

First posted 2015-08-25 06:10:14