From personal life to private law /
Mounting a lawsuit against someone who has wronged you is a prospect no less fearful than being on the receiving end of such a lawsuit. Litigation in the courts has a reputation for being a byzantine process far removed from ordinary life, often failing to address people's real grievances while...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Something came between us
- Relations of duty
- One thought too many, one reason too few
- Some doubts about strict relationality
- Strict relationality in legal relations
- The duty of care
- The relationality of rights
- 2. That's the story of my life
- The ins and outs of wrongdoing
- The biography argument
- From biography to responsibility
- Where justice comes in
- The allocation of outcomes in life and law
- 3. It's not about the money
- The clamour for amends
- On reconciliation
- Reparation and rational continuity
- The reparative uses of money
- How reparation gets personal
- From the personal to the interpersonal
- Wrongs and losses
- 4. Say it with flowers
- The irreparable remains
- Reasonable emotions
- Making apology intelligible
- Putting your money where your mouth is
- Say it with money; say it with flowers
- 5. The way things used to be
- Holding on and letting go
- Reasons for holding on
- No life without a past
- From holding on to going back
- Some unexplained points
- Justice in security
- 6. That was then and this is now
- Private law as a scheme of freedom
- The powers of the parties
- The enforcer
- Putting it behind us
- Into the sunset, carrying the loot