From: Gregory C. Keating <gkeating@law.usc.edu>
To: 'Neil Foster' <Neil.Foster@newcastle.edu.au>
obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 02/02/2011 05:48:38 UTC
Subject: RE: Harry Potter and Tort Theory
Attachments: Scott Hershovitz Harry Potter 63 Stan L Rev 67.pdf

Hi Neil and Everyone Else,

 

 This paper just came out in the Stanford Law Review. I’m attaching a pdf. of the published version, should anyone prefer to use it.

 

 Best,

 

 Greg Keating

 

From: Neil Foster [mailto:Neil.Foster@newcastle.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:04 PM
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Subject: ODG: Harry Potter and Tort Theory

 

Dear Colleagues;

There may be others, like me, who are putting together introductory thoughts on the basis for tort law for first year students, and who would find this a good resource for sparking discussion: Scott Hershovitz, "Harry Potter and the Trouble with Tort Theory" (October 5, 2010). Empirical Legal Studies Center. Working Paper 26. http://law.bepress.com/umichlwps/empirical/art26 (from the University of Michigan Legal Working Paper Series). Nice thought experiment critiquing both economic explanations for tort law and aspects of "corrective justice". And I love the idea of Harry leaving Hogwarts to go to a US Law School as a "1L" (though I can't help but observe he would surely have been more likely to try somewhere closer to home!)

Regards

Neil

 

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