Journal article
Partial Liability
- Abstract:
- Liability in tort law is all-or-nothing – a defendant is either fully liable or not at all liable for a claimant’s loss. By contrast, this paper defends a causal theory of partial liability. I’ll argue that a defendant should be held liable for a claimant’s loss only to the degree to which the defendant’s wrongdoing contributed to the causing of the loss. I ground this principle in a conception of tort law as a system of corrective justice, and use it to critically evaluate different mechanisms for ‘limiting’ liability for consequences of wrongdoing and for ‘apportioning’ liability between multiple wrongdoers.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 341.4KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S1352325217000040
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Legal Theory More from this journal
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1-26
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-8048
- ISSN:
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1352-3252
- Pubs id:
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pubs:675392
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uuid:cedddb52-a3c0-4cea-b771-5596b0091ee5
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pubs:675392
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675392
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2017-02-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Cambridge University Press 2017. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from CUP at: [10.1017/S1352325217000040]
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