Economic models of negligence ordinarily involve a single standard of care that all injurers must meet to avoid liability. When injurers differ in their costs of care, however, this leads to distortions in their care choices. This paper derives the characteristics of a generalized negligence rule that induces injurers to selfselect their optimal care levels. The principal features of the rule a...

Climate Change Litigation: Vulnerable Children and a Duty of CareThis article considers climate change jurisprudence in the context other eschatological narratives developing theme ecological catastrophe. It focusses particular on concepts fault, harm responsibility, referents case narratives, as expounding sense outrage at excesses modern capitalism, converse use child party innocent all agenc...

According to what is here called the “Intoxication Recklessness Principle,” a defendant who, thanks to voluntary intoxication, is unaware of a condition of which a reasonable person would have been aware is to be treated as though he were reckless with respect to that condition, rather than negligent. And, according to what is here called the “Intoxication Negligence Principle,” a defendant who...