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Jurisprudence Colloquium: John Goldberg (Harvard) on Tort Law

Please join us Thursday, April 14th, at 5pm for the next meeting of Law, Reason and Value, the new colloquium in jurisprudence co-sponsored by the School of Law and the School of Humanities.

Our speaker will be John C.P. Goldberg, Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, who will discuss the first chapter of a book he's co-writing, titled 'Rights, Wrongs and Recourse: a Theory of Torts,' the core theory of which is presented in the chapter, "Civil Wrongs, Civil Recourse, and Civil Rights" (tentative Table of Contents below).

The talk will run 5-6:30pm in Law 3500. There will also be a faculty dinner following the discussion; if interested please email jhelmrei@uci.edu.

RIGHTS, WRONGS AND RECOURSE:  A THEORY OF TORTS
John C. P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky

TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE CIVIL RECOURSE THEORY OF TORTS

1. Civil Wrongs, Civil Recourse and Civil Rights

2. Against the Grain

3. The Conduct-Rule Theory of Legal Rights

4. The Political Morality of Civil Recourse

5. Tort Law's Wrongs: Structure and Content

6. Beyond Formalism and Instrumentalism

THEORY APPLIED

7. Relational Duties and Substantive Standing: the _Palsgraf_ Principle

8. Injury Inclusive Wrongs and Strict Liability (herein of Moral Luck)

9. Redress as a Form of Recourse

10. Negligence (the California saga)

11. Punitive Damages and Due Process

12. Fraud on the Market

13. Products Liability and Preemption

MORAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY

14. Wrongs, Responsibility, and Accountability

15. Common Law and the Rule of Law

16. Two Paths of the Law