‘Can Tort Theory be Foundationalist?’

Adam Slavny, ‘Wrongs, Harms, and Compensation: Paying for Our Mistakes’ (2023). Adam Slavny’s ‘Wrongs, Harms, and Compensation: Paying for Our Mistakes’ rejects a basic premise of most contemporary tort theory. It renounces all aspiration to interpretive adequacy and holds contemporary tort law up to rigorous philosophical scrutiny. The results are invariably stimulating, usually illuminating, and often persuasive. Most contemporary tort theory tries to show that the theory being propounded makes sense of tort law … (more)

[Gregory Keating, JOTWELL, 21 February 2025]

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