Equality,_Responsibility,_and_the_Law

Equality, Responsibility, and the Law Equality, Responsibility, and the Law By Arthur Ripstein In this book Arthur Ripstein justifies the content of tort and criminal law on the strength of the view that such content reflects what fair terms of interaction require in the way of allocating instances of misfortune in criminal and civil disputes. The book also examines responsibility and luck as there issues arise in tort law, criminal law, and distributive justice. In revealing how the problems that arise in tort and criminal law as well as distributive justice. In revealing how the problems that arise in tort and criminal law as well as distributive justice invite structurally parallel solutions, the author also shows the deep connection between individual responsibility and social equality. Ripstein theory attempts to show how fair terms of interaction take equality, responsibility, and reciprocity into account in allocating misfortunes and how tort and criminal law defines such terms. One of the central claims of the book is that individual responsibility and social equality need to be understood together. In the first part of the book, Ripstein considers the issue of how to allocate misfortunes that arise when parties fail to exercise appropriate care. Chapter ripstein, law, criminal, view, way, person, book, about, terms, tort, right, responsibility, consent, should, sexual, part, life, legal, equality, because, theory, same, rights, negligence, means, liability, interaction, fair, consequences, chapter, between, basic, attempt, wrong, unsuccessful