Conflict Between Equals: Tort Law Beyond Wrong, Harm, and Cost (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198979876)

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Conflict Between Equals: Tort Law Beyond Wrong, Harm, and Cost

$170.00

Conflict Between Equals: Tort Law Beyond Wrong, Harm, and Cost

$170.00
Format: Hardcover
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Conflict between Equals argues that tort law has to be understood and ultimately vindicated as the actualization of two theories: the conflict and the equality theory of tort law. It is not harm, wrongdoing, or social cost that gives us reason to have tort law in the first place. Instead, it is human conflict-specifically, conflict between our fundamental interests-that serves as the moral function of tort law. How we respond to such conflicts determines which harms, wrongs, or costs should, if at all, be addressed by tort law.

The conflict theory elaborates on the nature and normative significance of three types of conflict: inherently valuable, tolerably valuable, and valueless. The theory emphasizes the importance of preventing valueless conflict, containing tolerably valuable conflict, and constructing the conditions necessary for inherently valuable conflict to arise. Moreover, the human conflict to which tort law responds reflects a commitment to treating the parties to a conflict as equals. The equality theory is grounded in the egalitarian ideal of relating as equals, thus tort law must determine terms of interaction that take seriously differences in the interests and conditions of the interacting parties. By doing so, tort law secures the ability of the parties in a conflict to relate as substantive, rather than merely formal, equals.

Author: Avihay Dorfman
ISBN-10: 0198979878
ISBN-13: 9780198979876
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2026
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.49w x 1.31d
By Avihay Dorfman
By Avihay Dorfman
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Avihay Dorfman, "The Friends of Joe Jamail" Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law and Tel Aviv University

BAvihay DorfmanB is "The Friends of Joe Jamail" Regents Chair in Law and Founding Academic Director of the Private Law Theory Program at the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on the conceptual and normative foundations of law. He has written on fundamental questions in private law theory and doctrine, as well as on the morality of public ordering. His research on the latter includes investigations into why privatization may sometimes be impermissible and what might make political authority legitimate. Across these areas, Dorfman emphasizes the non-instrumental values that underpin key legal and political institutions. His work explores the non-contingent implications of the law for enabling valuable forms of interaction between-and among-individuals.

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