Treating Wrongs as Wrongs: An Expressive Argument for Tort Law

Public Wrongs and the Criminal Law

1. The idea that crimes are public wrongs is a well-established one within the field of law. Its role in English Law was explicitly affirmed by Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. Recently, the idea of ‘public wrongs’ has also gained prominence among those working on the normative issues in criminalization, most notably in the works by Duff and Marshall. I have no intention t...

Animal Wrongs

Mental illness as an excuse for civil wrongs.

Wrongs , wrongfulness , and culpability in indirect discrimination law

In this paper we examine the nature of the duty-imposing norms in indirect discrimination (ID) law. We aim to clarify two main issues. First, we determine the extent to which these norms should be understood as imposing relational duties – duties owed to particular individuals or as imposing simple duties – duties owed to no one in particular – or, perhaps, both. Let’s call this the duty inquir...

Minor rights and wrongs.

ly and to consider cause and effect relationships,... [yet] has had little experience in applying these skills to decisions in a more autonomous manner."-' As a result, adolescents experience a chronic disjuncture caused by varying levels of biological development, cognitive ability, and experiential knowledge. Rather than mistaking one of these markers, such as cognitive ability, as indicative...