Imposing risk : a normative framework /

We subject others and are ourselves subjected to risk all the time - risk permeates life. Despite the ubiquity of risk and its imposition, philosophers and legal scholars have devoted little of their attention to the difficult questions stimulated by the pervasiveness of risk. When we impose risk up...

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Main Author: Oberdiek, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017
Edition:First edition
Series:Oxford legal philosophy
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300 |a xiv, 163 pages ;  |c 24 cm 
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500 |a "John Oberdiek's book makes a major contribution to the philosophical analysis of the concept of risk ..."--Series editors' preface 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Imposing risk : challenging the very idea -- Moralizing risk -- The moral significance of risking -- A right against risking -- Justifiable risking 
520 |a We subject others and are ourselves subjected to risk all the time - risk permeates life. Despite the ubiquity of risk and its imposition, philosophers and legal scholars have devoted little of their attention to the difficult questions stimulated by the pervasiveness of risk. When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking's moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the law respond to it? This book highlights these important but neglected questions and offers novel answers to them in a systematic way, constructing a normative framework of risk imposition that draws upon a wide range of insights from diverse sources within philosophy and legal theory. Oxford Legal Philosophy publishes the best new work in philosophically-oriented legal theory. It commissions and solicits monographs in all branches of the subject, including works on philosophical issues in all areas of public and private law, and in the national, transnational, and international realms; studies of the nature of law, legal institutions, and legal reasoning; treatments of problems in political morality as they bear on law; and explorations in the nature and development of legal philosophy itself. The series represents diverse traditions of thought but always with an emphasis on rigour and originality. It sets the standard in contemporary jurisprudence.--  |c Provided by Publisher 
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