Doing away with Tort Law

Guido Calabresi famously argues that tort law occupies the normative space between contract law on the one hand and criminal law on the other. It shares attributes of both but provides us with a practical and normative avenue of exchange that neither alone is capable of

Property, Wrongfulness and the Duty to Compensate

Professor Weinrib\u27s Causation and Wrongdoing is a very complicated and difficult paper, rich in ideas and detailed argument. The essay has both positive and critical ambitions. Weinrib criticizes the efforts to explain the normative significance of causation advanced by Professors Judith Thomson, Richard Epstein and myself. His positive view is that causation and wrongdoing are (in some sense) conceptually connected, and, because of this connection, they constitute separately necessary and jointly sufficient conditions of a coherent and justifiable scheme of tort liability